Categories

Use Categories to group the products in your catalog. A category can contain smaller groups called subcategories, such as Clothing → T-shirts. Here you can create those groups, change their names or images, change their order, or disable a category you no longer need.

Expand the list to see categories and the subcategories inside them. Each entry, called a node, represents one category. Click its name to edit its settings, or Add a sub-category to create a group inside it.

The first node of the tree stands for the page listing your categories on the store (named Boutique by default). Opening it lets you edit the title, description and image of that page; your root categories appear as its subcategories. This node cannot be disabled or deleted.

The dashboard is shown in French, with English captions.

Read the video steps

1. — In Categories, click “Create a category”.
2. — Name your category.
3. — Describe the pieces in this category.
4. — Add an image of the collection.
5. — Upload a photo of your ceramics.
6. — Confirm the collection photo.
7. — The photo is applied to the category.
8. — The category stays active under Idées créatives.
9. — Click “Save”.
10. — The category is visible with its photo.

Create a category

Click Create a category to add a new category at the root. To create a subcategory attached to an existing parent, use Add a sub-category directly on the relevant row.

Reorder

The display order on your store is set by drag and drop: open the parent category and reorder its children in the Subcategories block. For root categories, go through the first node of the tree. This order determines how visitors discover your catalog in the menu and category lists.

Category settings

Clicking on a category opens the edit form (titled Category for a root category, Subcategory for a nested one). The View page button opens the matching public page in a new tab, handy for quickly checking how it looks for visitors.

Content

The Category name is used as the page title and in the URL. The Category description introduces the category to your visitors; give it some care since it's also used for the SEO of the page.

Image

Add an image to illustrate the page and make it more attractive in menus and lists.

Settings

The Category status block lets you toggle the category between active and disabled. A disabled category no longer appears on your store or in navigation, without being deleted.

The Parent category field lets you attach the category under another existing one, useful for moving a category around the hierarchy without recreating it.

Subcategories

When the category has child categories, they are listed here. Drag and drop subcategories to change the order they appear in on the store.