How to customize Metafields
Metafieds can be helpful in your store if you need to display custom information on the storefront that is not supported by general specifications in your admin.
More about Metafields, the functionality of Metafilelds, and the requirements for displaying custom data in your store, read here.
Time countdown
With the Metafields, you can display the Time countdown on product and collection pages. How to set up the required settings in your admin for the following displaying on your online store, you can find below:
Step 1
Go to your Shopify admin -> Settings -> Custom data, and press the "Products" tab to add a metafield definition specifically for products:
Step 2
Then, hit "Add definition":
Step 3
In the opened dashboard, edit the fields. Here is an example of the settings:
Name - Time Countdown
Namespace and key - custom.time_countdown
Description - Sale countdown (optional)
Type - Date and time (One value)
Save the settings.
Step 4
Now you can decide on the product for which the Time countdown will be displayed.
For this, go to Products in your Shopify admin, and select a product:
Step 5
On the opened product page, scroll down to the "Metafields". Here you can view the available metafield to edit for the product. In the "Time Countdown" field, enter an expiration date and time:
Step 6
When you complete the settings in your admin, navigate to the theme Editor. In Shopify admin -> Online Store, hit "Customize".
Then, select the product template in the top drop-down of the Theme Editor. And add the "Time countdown" block to the product page:
To add the Time countdown on the product card of the collection listing, activate the "Show time countdown" option in Theme settings -> Product -> Time countdown.
Custom badges
Use the Metafields to build custom badges in your admin.
The theme provides eight badges that are already built into the theme and four custom badges that can be displayed from images. In the following help page, we will provide detailed instructions on the store configurations to display custom badges using both methods.
Step 1
To build a new badge, go to your Shopify admin -> Settings -> Custom data, and press the "Products" tab to add a metafield definition specifically for products:
Step 2
Then, hit "Add definition":
Step 3
Theme badges
The theme uses a unique Namespace and key to display badges on the storefront. So, make sure to create a definition for each custom badge using the metafield identity:
custom_badge_buy_3_get_1_free
custom.custom_badge_buy_3_get_1_free
custom_badge_back_in_stock
custom.custom_badge_back_in_stock
custom_badge_bestseller
custom.custom_badge_bestseller
custom_badge_buy_1_get_1_free
custom.custom_badge_buy_1_get_1_free
custom_badge_buy_2_get_1_free
custom.custom_badge_buy_2_get_1_free
custom_badge_coming_soon
custom.custom_badge_coming_soon
custom_badge_free_shipping
custom.custom_badge_free_shipping
custom_badge_outlet
custom.custom_badge_outlet
In the opened dashboard, edit the fields. Here is an example of the settings:
Name - custom_badge_outlet
Namespace and key - custom.custom_badge_outlet
Description - optional
Type - True or false
Save the settings.
Badges from images
To display badges as images, build metafield definitions with either "True or false" or "File" types. The theme provides options to create four custom badges displayed from images. If you need more than one badge, add a metafield definition for each one.
Example 1:
Check the example settings for the boolean type:
Name - custom_badge_1 (custom_badge_2, custom_badge_3, custom_badge_4)
Namespace and key - custom.custom_badge_1 (custom.custom_badge_2, custom.custom_badge_3, custom.custom_badge_4)
Description - optional
Type - True or false
Example 2:
Here are the example settings of the metafield definition to display an image from a file:
Name - custom_badge_1 (custom_badge_2, custom_badge_3, custom_badge_4)
Namespace and key - custom.custom_badge_1 (custom.custom_badge_2, custom.custom_badge_3, custom.custom_badge_4)
Description - optional
Type - File - One file
Accept specific file types - Images
Step 4
Now, assign custom badges to products. For this, go to Products in your Shopify admin, and select a product:
Step 5
On the opened product page, scroll down to the "Metafields". Here you can view the available metafields to edit for the product. Hit each metafield to link a badge.
Theme badges
To display badges on the storefront, hit the "True" value in the corresponding fields. You can display all the created custom badges or specify only the selected ones for a product.
In our example, all the badges have been used for the product:
Badges from images
Example 1:
If you use the boolean type to display images as badges, use the "True" value. This method displays an image assigned in the Theme Editor. Go to the Theme Editor, Theme settings -> Product to link images.
Example 2:
To display a badge using a custom image for a specific product, add the desired file to the corresponding field, in our example we used the "custom_badge_4" metafield.
View the example settings below:
Press the "Save" button to accept the settings for a product.
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