I have created tags and tag groups (premium feature), but I would like the tag groups to show up on the sidebar (right now, it’s just a big list of all the tags).
It would be great if the tag group name appeared above the list of tags in that group.
Tag groups will not appear in the sidebar (they exist more for backend organization). Tags will only appear as a single list.
You can, however, use custom fields in this manner (and set have them appear as their own sections in the sidebar).
If you need further guidance with custom fields, feel free to let us know 🙂
Note: if you can send along a few examples of your current tag groups, we can give examples of how you can apply them as custom fields instead.
I think it would be very nice if the tags had an option to appear in tag groups on the sidebar… maybe for a future update? 🙂
Further guidance would be very helpful, thank you. I am creating a database of local parks. Side note: can products be in more than one custom field? If I check multiple custom fields, it appears that they show up in a search for that custom field, but when I go back into the product, only one box is checked.
Here is an example of my playground tags (I have 100 total)… a park can have only a few of these features or many of them:
ADA Playground
Bark
Climbing Dome
Climbing Rocks
Climbing Structure
Climbing Tree
Climbing Wall
Monkey Bars
Music Elements
NO Playground
Playground
Playhouse
Rocks
Rubber Ground
Sand
Seesaw
Shaded
Slide – Big
Slide – Medium
Slide – Small
Slide – Tunnel
Slides
Slides – Roller
Spinners
Splash Pad
Spring Bouncers
Swings
Swings – ADA
Swings – Baby
Swings – Group
Swings – Regular
Swings – Tandem
Swings – Tire
Tot Lot
Zipline
Tag groups were designed for backend organization only; we don’t ever see ourselves developing an option to make it visible on the frontend.
A product can definitely belong to more than one Custom Field. You can check out this YouTube tutorial on how create Custom Fields and associate a product to them:
An example in your case would be:
Slide – Big
Slide – Medium
Slide – Small
Slide – Tunnel
Slides
Slides – Roller
Create a Custom Field:
Name: Slide
Type: Checkbox
Provide it some input values (Small,Medium,Tunnel,Roller)
Display: All
Searchable: Yes
Control type: Checkbox
From there, update all your products that have a slide by assigning them their respective slide value(s) (small,medium,tunnel,etc.).
