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You can manage your product offerings a step further through the use of product categories. Categories can be used to group similar items together and give your store a more organic flow. For example, if you are selling electronic consumer items such as audio and video equipment, you can have specific categories that group those items into their own headings - video equipment in one category, audio equipment in another. If necessary, you can also have sub-categories to further refine your product listings.
To Add a Category
- Go to Products >Categories
- Click the "+ Add New" button found along the top right of the page
- Name your category and click "Save"
Note:
When adding subsequent categories, you will be given the option of designating whether the new category will be its own or a sub-category of your existing categories.
Sub-Categories
When sub-categories are present in a "parent" category, the category listing itself will contain a small arrow indicating that sub-categories are present. Clicking on the arrow will display the sub-categories it contains.
Once the category is created, a link to the category page will be present on your live store. Some themes will display the category tree as a list, while other themes will display the categories as a drop-down menu.
In our next article, we will discuss how to edit and manage the various parameters available in your category options page. To view the article, please click here.
Tip
To the right of each category/sub-category, you'll see an action wheel icon with the following settings/actions.
- Details
This will show you the details of the category. This is the same as clicking on the category's name to open it up.
- Product Sorting
This action will list all of the products in the category allowing you to specify the sorting order of how the products will display.
(Sorting is determined by numbers; the higher the number, the further the sorting.)
- Add Subcategory
This action allows you to add a subcategory to the listed category
- Clone
Allows you to make a copy/clone of the category
- Hide
Hides the category from view on the store front.
- Delete
This action will let you delete the category.
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