Shopify Layout Settings

The Layout Settings page controls how filters render on Nimstrata search results and collection pages.

Filter Display Options

Filter Location

Choose where filters appear relative to the product grid.

Current options include:

• Left of Product Grid
• Above Product Grid

When filters are above the grid, shoppers open filters from an All Filters control. This layout also exposes quick-filter settings.

Sticky Filters

Keep filters visible while shoppers scroll through products.

Sticky filters are most effective when filters are positioned on the left side of the page. Sticky filters currently support desktop. If the theme uses a fixed header, merchants can also provide a Fixed Header CSS Selector so the header does not cover the filters while scrolling.

Toggle Drawer

When filters are above the grid, choose how the drawer and top-bar filters behave:

• Overlay Side controls whether the drawer opens from the right or left
• Desktop Filter Click Behavior controls whether a quick filter opens the full drawer or a single dropdown on desktop

Quick Filters

Choose how many quick filters appear before the full filter drawer:

• Quick Filters on Desktop
• Quick Filters on Mobile

Use 0 to hide quick filters on that breakpoint.

Filter Counts

Show or hide the count next to each filter value.

Filter Value Order

Choose whether values are ordered:

• Alphabetically
• By filter count

Filter Behavior Options

Search Within Filters

Add a search field inside large filters so shoppers can quickly find a specific brand, size, or other value.

Merchants can enable this on:

• Desktop
• Mobile
• Desktop and mobile

The Tolerance setting controls how many values must exist before the search box appears.

Sort By Options

Choose where sorting appears:

• Dropdown keeps sorting in the toolbar
• Dropdown (Desktop) / Inside Filters (mobile) moves sorting into filters on mobile only
• Inside Filters puts sorting in the filter panel on all breakpoints

Filter Limits

Limit the number of values shown at first, then reveal the rest behind View All.

This setting uses two controls:

• Filter Limit: how many values show initially
• Tolerance: extra buffer before the View All button appears

Product Page Links

Choose whether product cards link to:

• Selected variant, which keeps the variant in the URL
• Main product page, which removes the variant from the URL

When to Use Layout Settings

Use Layout Settings when merchants need to:

• Reduce visual clutter on large collections
• Improve mobile filtering behavior
• Make brand or size filters easier to use
• Match filter behavior to the theme layout

For attribute-level filter setup, see App Block Filters.