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

root category in bagisto

Step 2

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

root catagory in bagisto

Step 3

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

display mode

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 description

Product:-

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

product in bagisto

Description:-

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

category description

Step 4

Attach the category image.

bagisto category image

Step 5

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

Parent category in bagisto

 

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.

Filterable Attribute in bagisto

Step 7

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

new root catory in bagisto

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.

Parent Category in bagisto

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

Front end Category in bagisto

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/

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  • Dotosh
    Good day. Thanks for the tutorial. Meanwhile, I have an issue with creating sub-categories. I have searched many forums to fix it but all to no avail.

    The Issue:
    When I select a parent category in order to create a sub-category, I get a database error – SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1267 Illegal mix of collations (utf8mb4_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8mb4_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation ‘=’ (SQL: update categories set _lft = case when _lft between 16 and 17 then _lft-2 when _lft between 14 and 17 then _lft+2 else _lft end, _rgt = case when _rgt between 16 and 17 then _rgt-2 when _rgt between 14 and 17 then _rgt+2 else _rgt end where (_lft between 14 and 17 or _rgt between 14 and 17))

    Attempted Solution:
    I edited the default database collation to utf8mb4_unicode_ci in operations but I still receive the exact same error.

    Can you help, please?

    Thanks in anticipation.

  • niraj
    i create Category but not seen in SHOP BY CATEGORY and ALL Category.
    Please help to activate shop by category
    • saurav pathak
      Hi there,

      Please check if you have selected the root category for the other subcategories as created. If problem persists, please once put the query on our forum so the dev can see to it and assist you: https://forums.bagisto.com/

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