Installing the app
Installation starts from a Shopify-owned surface (the App Store listing, or a link inside your Partner or Shopify admin) rather than from anywhere on this site. There's deliberately no "enter your shop domain" field anywhere in the app itself; Shopify handles that step before the app is ever involved.
What it asks permission for
The app requests exactly one scope: read_content, which covers reading your blogs and articles. That's what it uses to discover tags and count how many articles carry each one. It never asks for permission to read products, customers, or orders, and it holds no write scope on your store at all. Every change you make happens in the app's own database and is only ever mirrored, read-only, to a shop metafield your theme can render.
What happens on first install
Note
The first thing you'll see is a short setup wizard: five steps that get a blog ready to filter in one pass. It's covered in full on The setup wizard.
Behind the scenes, installing:
- Creates a shop record that holds your settings.
- Runs an initial crawl of your blogs and articles to discover tags and count them.
- Creates the shop metafield definitions the storefront block reads from.
None of this touches your storefront yet. Nothing appears on your blog until you've added the block through the theme editor, which is step 4 of the wizard.
Reinstalling
If you've used the app before and install it again, your previous settings (tag visibility, ordering, styling, wording) come back as you left them, because uninstalling doesn't delete anything (see Uninstalling and your data). The one thing that's recreated automatically is the metafield definitions, since Shopify removes an app's own definitions when it's uninstalled; the app puts them back the moment you reinstall.