How to Edit Tags

Tags are labels you can add to your products to make them easier to search or manage. They can be used for either customer-facing features like search or for backend management.

You can use Ablestar Bulk Product Editor to modify product tags in bulk.

Choose if you prefer the 'In-App Edit' or 'Spreadsheet' method:

1. In-App Edits

There are several ways to bulk edit your tags:

Add tag(s) to product: This will add the selected tags to your products. You can add multiple tags at a tag and choose between existing tags and new tags. If a product already has a tag it will not be added twice.
Remove tag(s) from product: This will remove the selected tags from your products.
Rename tag: This will rename a tag across all products and is a good way to fix capitalization problems with your tags
Search/replace within tag name: This performs a search and replace within the text of all the tags on the product. For example:
- Search: yellow
- Replace: yellow
- Original tags: color=yelow, onsale, trim=yelow
- New tags: color=yellow, onsale, trim=yellow
Set tags (overwrites existing): Sets the tags for the products to the set value. Any existing tags are overwritten.

2. Spreadsheet Edits

You can add multiple tags to a product in a single column by separating the tags with a comma:

Undoing Tag Edits

Normally, when you undo an edit that app will reset that field to the value it was before the edit. Shopify stores all tags in a single field though and we do not want to accidentally overwrite any other, unrelated, tags that were modified between the edit's start time and when it is undone.

When you undo a tag edit the app will:

Remove any individual tags that were added by the edit
Add any individual tags that were removed by the edit

View Your Changes: Download Log

After undoing a tag edit, you can click on the 'Download' log button on the edit detail page to download a CSV file that will include:

The original tags right before you ran the edit
The tags right after you ran the edit
The tags right before the undo started
The tags after the undo completed

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

If you want to fix the case of a tag, for example change 'on-sale' to 'On-Sale', you can use the 'Rename Tag' option in the in-app edit
When tags in Shopify are compared they are considered case-insensitive. For example, the tags 'on-sale' and 'ON-SALE' would be equal
Tags may contain spaces but cannot contain commas
Depending on your theme, all product tags may be displayed to customers on the product detail pages
After metafield definitions were introduced in June 2021, metafields are often a better way to store additional information about a product

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