How to create a new Category and Root Category in Bagisto?

The category is a structure of your catalog. By creating category customer can easily find the specific product amongst the lot on your e-commerce website.

It is used for making the hierarchical arrangement of your website. Here we have listed down steps to create a new category and root category in bagisto.

Root Category

Bagisto comes with a default root category i.e Root but you can also create your own root category. Root Category is not visible on the front end because it acts as a container to contain the categories to be displayed on the website.

Steps to Create a New Root Category in Bagisto

Step 1

Click on Catalog>>Categories>>Add Category

Step 2

Enter the general value like name, position, description and add images.

Step 3

Display Mode- Display mode is about to which content detail visible on the category page. There is three option

• Product and Description
• Product
• Description

Product and Description:-

When you set display mode “Product and Description” then product and description about the category both will be visible on the front end.

Product:-

When you set display mode “Product” then product will be visible on the front end.

Description:-

When you set display mode “Description” then only category description will be visible on the front end

Step 4

Attach the category image.

Step 5

Do not select any category from Parent Category so as to be created as the root category.

Step 6

You can select the filterable attributes so it will be visible on that category as layered navigation. Enter the slug and click on Save Channel.

Note:- Only select and multi-select type attribute will visible in the filterable attributes and make sure layered navigation should be “yes” in attributes.

Step 7

Root Category will be visible on the product page while assigning that product in a particular category.

Steps to Create a New Category in Bagisto

For creating a new category, you have to follow the above step only you have to do some below changes in step 5

Select any Parent Category (already created root category) under which you want to put the newly created category.

• Enter the slug and click on Save Category

Setting Root Category in Channels

Your channel can have only one root category active at a time. Click on Setting>>Channels>>open the selected channel in Edit Mode>>select root category from the list>> Save Channel.

Category on Front-End

By following the above steps, you can easily create a new category and root category in Bagisto. Hope it will be helpful for you or if you have any issue feel free to raise a ticket at https://bagisto.uvdesk.com/en/

Sanjana Singh 21 February 2019, 16086 Views