6 Steps in How To Show Only Selected Variant Images

6 Steps in How To Show Only Selected Variant Images

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Compatibility: Compatible with Dawn version 2.5 to 12, and other new Shopify 2.0 FREE themes .

If you have Dawn below 2.5 version, follow this steps here.

I am not sure why Shopify 2.0 has not offered this option yet. The Shopify theme only hide the one images when you assign the image to that variant. What if we want to have multiple images assigned to the variant? There are several ways to do it. We can do this with NO APP or EXTERNAL library. But we will use the simplest way, and that is by using the image alt. The code adjust to what ever desktop layout and desktop media size you choose. This works with stacked layout and thumbnail slider layout.  

With that being said, please assign image alt that corresponds to the option you want to associate the image to. Make sure the variant text is the same with image alt. See video for more information.

What you are buying:

  • Show only images assigned to variant
  • Use image alt to assign a variant 
  • Works with stacked layout and thumbnail slider layout

What makes our code better:

  • We do not use external libraries, with that being said, our code will have no to minimal effect to your website's speed performance
  • We do not leave or add codes use to advertise for our website
  • Our code is mobile friendly

 

What you are buying:

  • An option to show only connected images when variant is selected
  • On first load, all images will appear
  • Well written code with NO external library being use

What makes our code better:

  • We do not use external libraries, with that being said, our code will have no to minimal effect to your website's speed performance
  • We do not leave or add codes use to advertise for our website
  • Our code is mobile friendly

Any issues related to the code will be fix with no additional cost, excluding code customization requests. Simply contact us with "Chat with us." We are just a button away. 

To start:

1. Go to Online store > Themes > Actions > Edit code. 

2. Open the main-product.liquid under the section folder. Find all the <slider-component> and change it to "show-variant". If you cannot find the slider-component in the main-product.liquid, you need to go to the Snippet folder, and open the media-gallery.liquid or product-media-gallery.liquid.

3. We have to add a dataset for all the <li> tag under the slider-component. We will add the code below and change it to the corresponding image variable. Make sure there is no spaces. See the video for more information.

 

See the image for code placement reference:

Select variant by images

4. Before the <section> tag, let's add a style or if you are in media-gallery.liquid or product-media-gallery.liquid, place the code on the very top of the file. I fix the position of the mobile view slider to make it center and only show one image per slide. 


5. Next, we need to add the script code. Open the "global.js" under the Asset folder. Find the " updateMedia() {." Before the closing bracket, add the code below. See video for more information on placement.

6. To make the slider work with the change of variant, we have to add this code at the very bottom of global.js. 

 

If you want to show the images only selected variant images on first load, please do the following

1. Open the main-product.liquid under the section folder. If you cannot find the slider-component in the main-product.liquid, you need to go to the Snippet folder, and open the media-gallery.liquid or product-media-gallery.liquid. 

2. Find the class of the <li> and add the code inside the quotation marks. Change it to the corresponding image variable. Just like what we did on step #3

 

See the image for code placement reference. Make sure to provide no space between our code and the class code:

HideVariant for Select variant using image

After all this code, you need to assign the media alts to your images. 

Note: In the Theme Editor, when you click "Customize theme", make sure you unclick the "Hide other variants’ media after selecting a variant" so no variant images will be hidden when called.

That's it. Hopefully that was not too much for you (",)

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6 comments

Hi @Albert S

Make sure to follow the steps carefully. If having trouble, please contact us using “Chat with us” feature for faster reply. Code were tested and still works with updated version of Dawn.

Made4Uo

Hi,

I purchased and installed the “6 Steps in How To Show Only Selected Variant Images” on dawn 11.0 and it is working correctly, the only issue is in the mobile view, the total count of images is incremented by 1 so for example if an a variant has 4 images and it will show in mobile view 1 of 5 and not 1 of 4

My theme url: https://q0oqp0bjn3m298gf-27046445131.shopifypreview.com

Please search for this item “High Society Hoops” to see what I mean (in mobile view)

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Albert Salem

Albert S

Hi @WILLIAM SHAPIRO,

It will not work on paid themes since the theme code will be far different. I would suggest to contact us using “Chat with us” to provide you the quote

Made4Uo

hi does this work for paid themes?

William Shapiro

Hi Arif,

Please message me in “Chat with us” and provide me your website. Thank you

Made4Uo

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