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Filtering products by using tags

We show you create filters using tags

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Written by Thomas Ta
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📖 By utilizing product tags, the app enables you to set up filters for specific product attributes in your filter trees. You can use them to create thematic filters and filters for collections with multiple layers of product grouping.


Create thematic filters in your filter tree

Thematic filters let shoppers browse by theme (e.g., “Dress occasion” for daytime vs. formal) so they find the right items faster. In Boost, create them as Tag filter options. While Shopify limits each product to 250 tags, Boost doesn’t limit how many tag values a filter can include. Tailor themes to your catalog—for a candle store, a Burn time filter helps customers choose by how long a candle lasts.

Filtering Products by Using Tags

💡 Boost offers a tag-value feature called tag prefix which has the form prefix:value where:

  • prefix is the designated filter option and is written with no space

  • value is the filter value of the filter option and can be written as normal words

To use tags to create that "burn time" thematic filter:

Step 1: Create tags

  1. From your Shopify’s admin, go to Products

  2. Click the name of the product that you want to display its burn time

  3. In the Product organization section, go to Tags. Then, enter a tag as "burntime:Two hours" with "burntime:" as a prefix

  4. Click Save

  • Open other products that you want to add the "burn time" tag and follow the same steps as above. Remember to add the corresponding value with the prefix "burntime:"

Step 2: Create a "tag" filter option

  1. From our app’s dashboard, go to Filter > Filter trees

  2. Select the filter tree that you want to create the thematic filter with tag option

  3. Click Add filter option

  4. Select Tag in the drop-down of Option Type

  5. Enter Burn time in the Option label section

  6. Select Using prefix

  7. Fill in "burntime:" in the Filter the tags by a prefix* section

  8. (Optional) In the Extended values section, select filter values that you don’t want to be used to set up this filter option

  9. Save on the Edit filter option page

  10. Save on the Filter Options page

  11. Check how new settings appear on your storefront

⚠️ * The prefix is solely used to filter proper products and it will not be displayed on your storefront.

💡 You can also use product tags as values for the Multi-level collections filter option.


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