I am working with a shopify theme and trying to output the product vendor information on the main collection page. I have tried placing <p>{{ product.vendor | link_to_vendor }}</p> in multiple places which worked in another area of my theme but I am not having any luck -- can someone please help to explain how I can accomplish this? The code below is for my collection.liquid file
{% capture collectionDescription %} {% if collection.description != blank and settings.collection-show-description %} <div> {{ collection.description }} </div> {% endif %} {% endcapture %} {% if collection.image and settings.collection-show-featured-image %} <div> <div> <h1>{{ collection.title }}</h1> {{ collectionDescription }} </div> </div> {% elsif collection.handle == 'all' %} <h1>{{ 'collections.collection.all_products' | t }}</h1> {{ collectionDescription }} {% else %} <h1>{{ collection.title }}</h1> {{ collectionDescription }} {% endif %} {% assign productsPerPage = settings.collection-products-per-row | times: settings.collection-number-of-rows %} {% paginate collection.products by productsPerPage %} {% if collection.all_tags.size > 0 and settings.collection-enable-tag-filtering %} <div> {% assign fallback = '' %} {% if collection.handle %} {% capture link %}/collections/{{ collection.handle }}{% endcapture %} {% assign fallback = link %} {% elsif collection.products.first.type == collection.title %} {% capture link %}{{ collection.title | url_for_type }}{% endcapture %} {% assign fallback = link %} {% elsif collection.products.first.vendor == collection.title %} {% capture link %}{{ collection.title | url_for_vendor }}{% endcapture %} {% assign fallback = link %} {% endif %} <div> <div> {% if current_tags %} {{ current_tags.first }} {% else %} {{ 'collections.collection.browse' | t }} {% endif %} </div> <select> {% if current_tags %} <option name="reset">-- {{ 'collections.collection.clear' | t }} --</option> {% else %} <option name="browse" selected disabled>{{ 'collections.collection.browse' | t }}</option> {% endif %} {% for tag in collection.all_tags %} {% if current_tags contains tag %} <option name="{{ tag | handle }}" selected>{{ tag }}</option> {% else %} <option name="{{ tag | handle }}">{{ tag }}</option> {% endif %} {% endfor %} </select> </div> </div> {% endif %} <div> {% for product in collection.products %} {% include 'product-list-item' %} {% else %} <p>{{ 'collections.collection.no_products' | t }}</p> {% endfor %} </div> {% if paginate.previous or paginate.next %} {% include 'pagination' %} {% endif %} {% endpaginate %} 
2 Answers
A product has a vendor. As you point out, the simple Liquid construct is product.vendor. So when you are looping through all the products in a collection, you certainly do have access to them. So what is your actual problem? If you wanted to display the vendor, best place seems to be in your include file 'product-list-item' since that is where your product will be instantiated.
2I had to do this in a collection template where {{ product.vendor }} doesn't work because the product object isn't readily available. Here's how that looked:
{% for product_vendor in collection.all_vendors %} {{ product_vendor | link_to_vendor }} {% endfor %} 
