Magento
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Creating and
editing categories. Navigate to Catalog> Manage Categories. To the left of
the page you have the opportunity to create a new category. Add Root Category
and Subcategory. Give the category a name. This name will be displayed on the
front end.
From the
Parent Category drop down the location, where the category should placed. By
default, the Root, each category has been created as a parent a Root Catalog
level category will be. Having Multiple Level Categories Root Catalog is useful
if you want multiple category structures in different stores.
If you did
not multiple Store structure is used, then the multiple root catalogs not
required. Each class created a Root Catalog level, as its parent Category is a
top level category in the navigation bar to the Front End. If you want your
customers to subscribe to a list of all your top level categories through RSS
feeds.
If an
existing top-level category (i.e. not the Root Catalog) is selected as a Parent
Category, then the new category is created as a subcategory of the selected top
level category. This top-level category will appear in the front end and a
dropdown menu.
When the top
level category has gone with the mouse (See figure), then fold it open. If the
category in a second level category is made, that will expand the category menu
to the right when the mouse is moved over.
When a
customer is browsing in your store, the category levels are shown at the top of
your page below the navigation bar, in a "breadcrumb". For example:
if your client on the navigation bar to go and arrive at Apparel> Shoes> Men’s
and clicks Man, it will be forwarded to the Human category page.
The breadcrumb is displayed as
follows:
All Parent
categories are hyperlinks to the corresponding category pages. The same is true
for the product pages. In this example the product name will be the last show
in the breadcrumb.
It is a
dynamic feature, which means that the breadcrumb is displayed automatically,
following the route that your client has made to the product. If you have a
product associated with multiple categories, the breadcrumb only give details
of the specific path that your customers choose, whenever they arrive at a
product page.
The breadcrumb
function ensures that usability is increased and customers at all times know
where they are in your store, with a clear path to return to pages visited.
1. Enter a
description in Description. This is for internal use and will not appear on the
front end.
2. Select an
image by clicking the Browse ... button and locate the image on your computer.
the image will again be on the front end of each category between the category
name and page content. Once a category is stored with an image, a thumbnail of
the current image displayed on the left of the Browse button and a Delete Image
checkbox on the right will be displayed.
3. Enter the
Meta information for each category in the Page Title, Meta Keywords and Meta
Description fields. (Meta information is important for find ability)
4. Display
Mode and CMS Block refer to the use of static blocks of categories.
5. Select
Yes or No in the Is Anchor dropdown. This drop has two effects.
Anchored
categories give all products associated with all child categories (and a child
of a child of a child of a child, etc.) on this category page with the category
page that is directly associated with the parent category.
Anchored
categories indicate filterable attributes of all products that appear in the
category page (i.e. the products associated to this category and to the child
categories) are found in the left column of the Layered Navigation menu.
6. Select
Yes or No from the dropdown Is Active. Select Yes for this category in order to
make it visible on the front end. If you select No, the category will not be
displayed in the navigation bar on the front end and the subcategories and
category names displayed in a light gray color in the category tree in the left
column of the category page inside the admin.
7. The Url
key ensures that you can enter a search engine friendly URL, for entering the
URL cannot contain spaces are used
In the left
column is a dropdown menu called Choose Store View. The default selection in
the menu is All Store Views. When this is selected, it is possible to change
the default settings for each category. If you select a specific Store View,
it's possible the settings specific to that Store View to view.
Only certain
settings may vary from store view. Institutions that do not vary for each store
view are the same "global" and are labeled [Global] beside him. The
settings may differ are labeled [Store View].
Explanation:
The products
assigned to a category, approached from the Category Products tab, not Global.
So you can choose a different view to, in each store view. Among these is the
category dropdown tree. It will cover all existing categories and the relationships
to each other appear. For example, if a category is a subcategory will
immediately fall under the category are displayed. Next to each category name
in the tree numbers are displayed.
The numbers
indicate the number of products again directly associated to this category.
Because products associated to the store level, the numbers vary depending on
the store view selected in the dropdown.
To edit an
existing category, select the category in the tree and the settings are
displayed the center of the page. When editing a category, the Parent Category
dropdown are unavailable. When a Parent to give another category, you can do so
simply, drag and drop directly into the tree to apply.
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