Enter categories
Open the editor, click Basket, and select Categories.
Categories serve as an easy and effective way of creating different departments of your online shop. If you have hundreds of products, categories make it super easy for customers to find the exact products they need. Learning how to create a category and then add it to your home page gives your customers an improved browsing experience and makes your online shop look more professional.
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Open the editor, click Basket, and select Categories.
Give the category a unique name and a brief summary of what the category is about.
Give your category a relevant image. You can also choose whether you want this category to appear in a sidebar on your website.
A category is like a department in a supermarket, with each department having a series of aisles.
Underneath Choose Groups, select the aisles (groups) that belong within this department (category).
If you have many groups, you can type in the exact name of the group you require, or you can select them manually.
Now that we have created our category, we want to plug it into a new webpage and attach it to the navigation bar on our home page.
Look for the buttton at the top of the screen titled Webpages.
On the right hand side at the top of the page, select Organise navigation buttons.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the category we just created and drag it over to the right-hand bar – you can choose exactly where it sits along the navigation bar by moving your webpage up or down into the spaces.
As you can see, the category has been plugged into our website's navigation bar, making it easy for customers to access.
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