Shopify and Liquid: Get product in an array for loop of product variant SKUs

Question

I'm trying to create a custom collection template on our Shopify store. Our business, every month, does a promotional update to our existing collections that ends up becoming a laborious chore with the manual collection curation of selecting individual SKUs. On our Wordpress/Woocommerce site, it's all easily handled with a comma separated list of of SKUs and the [products] shortcode.

I am trying to write a for loop with Liquid to loop through an array of SKUs, and display the product tile per SKU. The only thing is, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to target a specific product by product.variant.sku.

How I envision it from a simplistic view:

{% assign product_skus = "1234,5678,9101,1121" | split: ',' %}
{% for product_sku in product_skus %}
  {% if product.variant.sku == product_sku %}
    {% include "product-tile" %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

I know the above will not work, but I cannot find the proper direction in the documentation (or I'm just not understanding it correctly) to make this sort of thing work. I feel like it should be possible. Any help would be greatly apprecaited!

Answer 1

I think you need to utilize the default input types to create a backend editor settings panel using input type product_list documentation link.

{
  "type": "product_list",
  "id": "product_list",
  "label": "Products",
  "limit": 12
}

and loop them using liquid one front end easily. add code settings_schema.json

it appears in the editor like this

Choose products

get the same into using liquid code like this sample

{% for product in settings.product_list %}
   {{ product.title }}
{% endfor %}

Read more about product object in Shopify here