Shopify Liquid Tip: Product Vendor Collection Handle

Here's a rather arcane one for you. It is very technical, very liquid (i.e. pertains to Shopify's templating language), and probably would be of interest to at least 2 people on the planet that I can think of, so please feel free to skip over.

Anyways...

In collection.liquid, you can find out what collection you are operating on using {{ collection.handle }}. For most collections it works quite well:

Collection	URL	{{ collection.handle }}
All products in "shoes"	/collections/shoes	shoes
All products in "shoes", filtered by those tagged "High Heels"	/collections/shoes/high-heels	shoes
All products of type "expensive"	/collections/expensive	expensive
All products made by Manolo Blahnik	/collections/vendors?q=blahnik	null

Can you spot the odd one out? That's right - collection.handle is null on the collection page when querying by vendors.

So, if you need to find out if you are on a vendor collection page, you will need to do something like this:

{% if collection.handle == null %}
 Browsing products lovingly crafted 
 by {{ collection.products[0].vendor }}.
{% endif %}

Comments

[Miguel S.]

Thank you, I am one of two people that needed this. I was wondering why vendor collections had no info on the wiki

[margot]

Yes! Thank you! I've got this in my code & it works perfectly, but the "browsing products lovingly created" blurb displays alongside every. single. product. Which is totally unnecessary. Even if I delete the blurb it still wants to display the vendor name alongside the photo, which isn't necessary for me either. Anyone else have this problem too? Or have any fixes?

[dave]

I am also one of the people who need this. Works great, thanks.

[joey]

Another of the few people that needed this. Maybe the few is not so few!