Magento 2 is an eCommerce platform that provides various opportunities to different merchants and offers flexible shopping carts, and access to control the content and the functionality of their online stores. It also offers powerful marketing strategies, better search engine optimization, and various catalog management tools for better platform visibility.

Here’re some of the Advantages of Magento 2.

Advantages of Magento 2

  • Customizable
  • SEO Friendly
  • Scalable
  • Flexible
  • Easy to Integrate

Loaded with some pretty impressive features, Magento 2 is widely used for eCommerce platforms. Products on Magento 2 can be considered the heartbeat of online stores. Categories in the store play a significant role in building a store. Catalog Categories of your store are like an upside-down hill, with roots on the top. The first level category of the product will be highlighted below the root, as an option in the menu bar, you can also add subcategories if you want to add them. Categories can be dragged down or dropped to other locations of your choosing.

Are you thinking of building a new Magento 2 store, but don’t know what to do next?

Adding products to the category menu is the first thing you have to do after building a new store. If you are facing problems in adding a category menu, the below-given steps will help you resolve them efficiently.

Let’s discuss how to create different categories and Add a Category Menu in Magento 2.

Steps to Add Category in Magento 2

Step: 1 Create a Category

  • On the Admin Side bar of the store, go to Catalogs> Categories.
  • Then, set a store view, to determine where the new category will be available.
  • In the category tree, choose the parent category of the new category.

(Parent Category is one level up the new category)

  • If you are about to start from the beginning without holding any data, there will be two categories in the list: The default category (which is the root), and an Example category.
  • Add Sub-Category

Step: 2 Basic Information Completions

  • For immediate availability of category in the store, change Enable Category to ‘Yes’.
  • For including the category on the very top menu, change Include in Menu to ‘Yes’.
  • Provide Category Name
  • Click on save and continue.

Step: 3 Category Content Completions

  • Extend the Content sections
  • To upload the image of the content, either you can upload the image on your own or you can select the image that already exists in media storage.
  1. To upload your image, click on Upload and select the Image.
  2. To select the image from the media storage you can select the image from the gallery according to the category.
  3. For uploading a description, you can add text related to the content of the category.
  4. You can change the format of the text by editing it.
  5. For Adding the content block on the category page, select the CMS Block you want to appear.
  6. Hit on Save and continue.

Step: 4 Display settings Completion

  • Extend the display setting option on the page
  • Choose one of the following for setting Display Mode
  1. Products Only
  2. Static Block
  3. Static Block and products
  • To include the Filter by Attribute section of the navigation, change the Button to ‘Yes’
  • To Change the availability of the products Listed by options, follow the given steps:
  1. Deselect the ‘Use all’ checkboxes
  2. Select the values you want your customers to see, For Example, the value may include:
  • Product Name
  • Price of the Product
  • Position
  • To set the default sorting order in the category; select the Default Product Listing Sort by value.
  • To change the Layered Navigation Price step settings, follow the given steps:
  1. Deselect the default setting
  2. Enter the value as the Price step for layered navigation.
  • Click on Save

Step: 5 Complete the SEO Settings

  • Extend the SEO setting option
  • Complete the given ‘Meta Data’ for the category:
  1. Meta Title
  2. Meta description
  3. Meta Keywords
  • Hit Save button

Step: 6 Product Selections

  • Expand the product category section and use any one of the following methods to add products to the category.
  1. Use Filters to find the products
  2. To check all the records which are not yet included in the Category, set the record selector in the first column to ‘No’ and hit the search button
  3. In the very first column, select the box for the product you want to include in the category
  • Click on the Save button

Step: 7 Category Permission Settings

  • Extend the Category Permission Option
  • Choose the website where you want to apply category permission for a multi-site installation.
  • Select the customer Group, if you want, you can choose Shared Catalog Instead.
  • Set the following Permission given below:
  1. Browsing Category
  2. Price of Product
  3. Add to Cart
  • To add another rule of permission, select ‘New Permission’ and repeat the process.

Step: 8 Design Settings

  • Extend the Design section
  • Make the design setting you needed:
  1. To set the parent category design to this category, turn Use Parenting Category settings to ‘yes’.
  2. To change the design of the pages, choose the theme of your choice
  3. To Change the column layout, choose the layout of your choice you want to apply
  4. For entering the code, enter the valid code in the Layout Update XML box.
  5. For using the same design for the pages of the product, set apply design to the product to ‘yes’.
  • To set the time for the update for a specific time, you can do the following things:
  1. Expand the Design Update section
  2. Use a calendar to select the Update ‘From’ and ‘To’ dates
  • Once complete, Click on save.

CONCLUSION

Magento has a great impact on the world of eCommerce. The above-given steps may help you in creating a category in your new store on Magento 2.

If you are still facing any difficulty from the above-given steps, you can also create categories through Magento and add category attributes programmatically.

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