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so categories.
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Are just the way and I'm sure again,
most of you
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will be familiar with this, just a way
to group your products together.
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Probably more from,
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a customer facing perspective
more than anything else.
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So it gives you a way
to sort of group different,
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like for like products together.
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So let's say stationery, for example.
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You might have pens in that,
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notepads in there, whatever,
whatever you need.
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But you do have the ability to create
subcategories, which is quite useful.
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You can fully customize the category page,
and there's various different ways
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you can or bits of information
that you can display
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on those category pages,
which are quite useful as well.
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So if I go to
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my examples again
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and then stick to my basic products,
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this is an example of a category page
that you can have.
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And again, it's a mess
because I've just enabled
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a lot of the settings
that we have available to show you.
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But it does show that you
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can have it
laid out in a lot of different ways.
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So what I've got here, for example,
I've got the categories list
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over on the left hand side so I can easily
navigate between all my categories.
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I've got descriptions and headers,
which again we can control
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using content templates.
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If you want to make it
very visually appealing.
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And then we've got our lists of products
and subcategories.
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Now interestingly here I've got
subcategories but I'm displaying it.
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So all of the products within
those subcategories are also displayed
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on my parent category,
which is quite nice.
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And if I go to the specification
of that category,
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we get to this through the Manage
Categories
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screen.
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Creator category.
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And then to be honest,
it appears in much the similar way
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as you would have seen the specification
of the product landing page.
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All we're doing
is specifying details of the categories
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such as an image, some descriptions,
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Whether or not it's published,
that kind of thing.
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Another useful setting on here is
the ability to specify a parent category.
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That's how we can create
subcategory structures.
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So we're specifying the category
that's the next level up in the chain.
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And then
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you can do SEO.
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This tab allows you to assign
which products are within the category.
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You've got discounts which as with
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the product,
can be assigned to a category as well.
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And then you've got various display
settings.
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Again, as we saw with the product
controlling various different things.
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Some examples of things you control in
here are the page size.
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So if you want a certain amount
of products shown
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on the category page by the by default,
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if you want breadcrumb showing
if you want the
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subcategories to be showing,
if you want the category navigation
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to be showing, all those are kind
of available within the display settings.