Categories (Store)

Categories can be custom or global and can be used not only for categorizing products but also blogs, themes, industries or anything you want to categorize.

Category Types

Category types are a way of grouping categories by type such as Product, Blog, Industry, Them, Occasion or any custom type you want to create. We currently offer the following category types. If we don’t not have one listed that you would like us to add please submit a request ticket. All stores include pages to display a list of categories by type.

• Themes

  CODE

  https://yourdomain.com/themes
  https://yourdomain.com/theme/{category_slug}

• Products

  CODE

  https://yourdomain.com/cat/
  https://yourdomain.com/cat/{category_slug}

• Occasions

  CODE

  https://yourdomain.com/occasions
  https://yourdomain.com/occasion/{category_slug}

• Industries

  CODE

  https://yourdomain.com/industries
  https://yourdomain.com/industry/{category_slug}

• Events

  CODE

  https://yourdomain.com/events
  https://yourdomain.com/event/{category_slug}

• Blog

  CODE

  https://yourdomain.com/blog
  https://yourdomain.com/blog/{category_slug}

Both products and pages on your site can be associated with various categories within each category type. For example a blog post may be related to a blog category, theme and product categories allowing the post to be displayed on pages assigned to those categories.

See Category Type Pages and Categories List Component for more information on displaying a list of categories by type and unique pages by category type.

See the Blog Post and Blog Post List components for more information on displaying blog posts throughout your site.

Categories

Global Categories

Global categories are used primarily for distributor stores where products are categorized using MPower global category structure. See store configuration for more information on enabling or disabling the use global categories for your store. By default Distributor Stores use global categories.

Non-Global Categories

For stores which have their own category structure categories can be created and used individually per store. By default Company and Popup Stores require categories to be created.

Product Categories

Product categories are the most commonly used category types and control how and where your products are displayed in Product List components.

Adding Categories

1. From the store builder select Categories.

2. Select Add Category.

3. Fill out the following fields

   1. Name REQUIRED - The name of your category.

   2. Slug REQUIRED - The url of your category. I.e. https://store.mpowerpromo.com/cat/your-category-slug.

   3. Category Type REQUIRED - The type of category you are creating.

   4. Parent Category - If you would like this category to be a sub category select its parent.

4. Select Save Category.