Category: Magento

Adding a New Sub-Category in M2

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Main menu thing

Got to Catalog – Categories

Pick a store (leave on all store views put pick a store from the folders below)

Pick a folder –> click “Add Subcategory”

Include in menus – Off canvas & All Sports – don’t include in All Sports if it’s a level 3 sub-sub category – e.g. equipment – kits – men’s kits wouldn’t go in All Sports.

Enable category – No

  • INCLUDE IN MAIN MENU – NO (unless a main sport top-category page e.g. /cricket or football main page
  • Category Description Placement – Show at bottom

  • Category Name – Add H1

Leave menu settings

  • CONTENT

Add thumbnail image if you have one

Description – Edit with Page Builder – > Apply Template -> Search for “product” -> Use Product Description

APPLY

Click cog icon

Put <p> </p> tags and paste in description for page

SAVE

close full screen with two arrows in top right.

Display settings – Select Price

  • SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION

Add URL, meta title and meta desc.

URL doesn’t need .HTML at the end.

****hreflang****

— Don’t enable foreign sites! and put in clickup

How to Add Sub-Category Pages – Magento 1

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This is a post to remind me how to add sub-category pages on a specific e-commerce site, but most of the instructions are universal to M1

  • Go to Catalog – Manage categories

  • Leave on “All Store Views”

  • Click into folder you want to put a sub-category
  • Press “Collapse All” at the top to keep folders tidy
  • Highlight the Category/Folder you want to add the new sub-category into
  • Click the “+ Add SubCategory” button (blue)

For a new sport category, click “”NWS UK” and then “+ Add Subcategory”

First Tab – if the H1 is too long for the menu – populate Category Name and Category Heading differently

eg.

First Tab – General Information

– is main tab to fill in –
URL Key, meta title, page title (name), meta description

– “Include in Navigation Menu” – “NO”

Second Tab – General

Define Filter menu for left of page
“Filter Select Mode”
– Enable Selected Filters with the drop down menu

  • Add “price” as a filter
  • Add anything else relevant

“Display Settings” Tab

-Products only

  • Is Anchor – “Yes“
  • Make a note of ID Number of sub cat.

“Category Products” Tab

  • Add with product ID or search by name – then tick checkbox on left
  • Position – uses box on the right. Add in tens – 10, 20, 30, not 1,2,3*

    *This makes it easier to add new products in order. If you order everything 1,2,3,4 etc, then you have to change all the order numbers when you add in a new product. Whereas if you order them 10,20,30, then you can add a new product with an order number of 15 and it will sit 2nd.

!Don’t drag the category folders into other folders!

  • Remember to enable the new Sub-category on the first tab when it’s ready!

  • Double check – “NO” in “include in menu”
  • Check added category products – not related products

For personal reference

Remember to keep on “All Store VIews” when adding to es and de too