Categories

OrderStorm WordPress eCommerce allows you to organize your products into logical categories. Categories should be created before adding products.

• Add New Categories
  • From the Products Tab select Product Categories
  • Click at the top of the page to add a new category.
  • Fill in all fields and select Add.
  • Either add another category or go HOME to finish setting up the first category.
  • From the Products tab select Product Categories again.
  • Find the category you just added and select edit.
  • Browse to and Upload a category image. The image must be sized and formatted before you upload. If you do not upload a photo, the shopping cart will display a default image that says ‘No image available’. If you want to use a different default image, load the image you want to use instead into your Media Library. (If you want nothing to display for this image, you can create a small transparent .gif) Then go to Settings, Storefront Settings and scroll down to the main image set-up area. Enter the URL of the image in the field for category thumbnail image default URL.
  • Add unlimited additional pictures to the Category Long Description using your WordPress Media Library.
    • Upload the photo to the Media Library.
    • Copy the image URL into the Category Long Description.
  • Set display category to YES.  If you are adding a brand new category you may NOT want to display it until you have completed the set-up of this NEW category. Completing the set-up may include making it a sub-category of another category and adding products to it. After you have done this you can edit the NEW category and mark it with a YES for display to make it live on your site.
• Create Subcategories
  • Follow all the instructions for adding a new category above.
  • From the Product Categories page, select move.  On the next page, find the parent category you want and click move here.
• Manage Categories – turn on and off, re-sort, move
  • From the Products tab select Product Categories.
    • From the Edit Category page, use the yes/no buttons to turn the entire category off or on.
    • Select move to create a subcategory and move the category under a parent category.
    • Select view products to view a list of products in the category and edit them.
    • Select batch edit products to edit prices for all products in the category and a short list of product attributes.
    • Select view products to delete a batch of products from the category or add a batch of products to another category. The same product may appear in multiple categories – ex. License plate lights could appear in both ‘License Plate Mounting’ and ‘Lights and Turn Signals’.

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