Hi guys
Today we’re going to see, how you can create product categories
to your ecommerce website.
Let’s say you have an ecommerce website and you have products like this
And now you want to arrange your products into different categories like this
You can do that by watching this video.
So after watching this video, you will be able to create product
categories like this on your website
And anyone who is visiting your website will be able to easily find the
products they want based on the category
So all you need to have, to follow this tutorial is an e-commerce website.
if you don’t have an e-commerce website,
you can easily make one by watching this video.
Once you've created your e-commerce website,
you can then follow this tutorial
So let’s get started
I’m Bryan from website learners,
And let’s add product categories to our website
First, let’s see the website, where we’re going to create the product categories
Here it is, you can see that we have all the products on our site but there
are no categories for our products.
So we’re going to create product categories in just 3 steps
The first step is to ‘create your categories’
So to create the categories
Just go to your WordPress dashboard
Now go to products and click ‘categories’
And it will take you to this page
Now enter the name of your category in this field
I’m going to create a category called ‘men’
And click ‘add new category’
Now as you can see a new category has been added.
So In the same way, you can create as many categories as you want
Next, I’m going to create an another category called ‘women’
So let’s enter that here and click ‘add new category’
now we have successfully created our product categories.
Once you have created the categories.
If you go here and click ‘view’
you can see that, we do not have any products in on our category.
So now we can go to step 2 of this tutorial which is to
‘Add products to your categories’
So to add products to your categories
Just go back to your dashboard
And click ‘all products’
here you will find all the products you have on your site
Now to add products to your category,
First, you need to select the products which you want to add to your category
I’m going to select these
Once you have selected the products
Just click here and click ‘edit’
And then click ‘apply’.
Now here you need to select the category in which you want to add these products.
I’m going to add the products into the ‘men’s’ category
So let’s select that
And click ‘update’
So now your products will be added to the ‘men’ category
to check that
Let’s go to this tab
as you can see, we do not have any products here
Now if we click ‘refresh’
You can see that, we now have the products in on our category.
So this is how you can add products to your category.
In the same way, we will add products to the women’s category
So let’s go to our dashboard
And click ‘products’
Now select the products, which you want to add to the ‘women’s' category
I’m going to select these
Once you have selected the products
Like we did before
Let’s click here and select edit
and then click ‘apply’
Now here select the category as ‘women’
And then click ‘update’.
okay
So now we have successfully added the products to our categories.
Now if we go to our website and click ‘home’, you can see that
our categories do not appear here
Now, How do you add the categories you created to your menu?
Next, let’s go to step 3 where we see How you can add the
categories to your menu
So to add your categories to the menu
Let’s go to our worpdress WordPress dashboard
Now go to ‘appearance’ and click ‘customize’
And it will take you to this page
Now to add the categories to your menu
Just click ‘menus’
And click on ‘main menu’
Here you will be able to see the menus which you have on your website.
Now to add categories to your menu,
Click ‘add items’
and select ‘product categories’
And here select the categories you want to add to your menu
I’m going to select these categories.
Now to save the changes, lets click 'publish'
as soon as you select the categories, it will be added to your menu like this
now if we go back to our website
And click ‘refresh’
You can see that, we now have the categories on our menu.
so now if we click on men, we can only see men's products.
and now if we click on ‘women’
we can only see the women’s products.
okay
So this is how you can add product categories to your menu
And now your customers will be able to easily choose their
products using these categories.
So now you know how to add your product categories on your menu.
But what if you want to display your categories in a
different place on your website?
Next, let’s see how you can display your categories in a sidebar
of your website like this
So to display your categories in the sidebar, first you need to enable
the sidebar, on your store page.
So to enable it, Just click ‘customize’ and then go to ‘sidebar’
Now as we’re using the Astra theme, we have got the sidebar option here.
But if you are using a different theme, find it from here and enable the side bar on your theme
So to enable the side bar, under woocommerce
Click here & select the sidebar you want to add
I’m going to select ‘left sidebar’
And as soon as we select it,
you can see that, our sidebar appears here.
Now to display products on this sidebar,
Let’s click here to go back
And Click ‘widgets’
now click ‘woocommerce sidebar’
And then click ‘add widget’
Now here, search for ‘product categories’, here
And you’ll get this feature
So let’s click on it
You can see that, we now have our sidebar with product categories.
So to save the changes
Let’s click ‘publish’.
now if we go to our website and click ‘refresh’
You can see that, we have got our product categories in the sidebar of our site.
So this is how you can display your product categories on your sidebar.
Now if you see here, we have a default category in our
sidebar called uncategorized
If you click on it, you can see all the products under this category by default
Since we have all our products under this category,
let’s change this category name to ‘all products’
So to change it,
Let’s go to our dashboard,
Now go to products and click ‘categories’
Here you can see that we have our default category
Now to change the name of this category
Let’s go here and Click ‘quick edit’
and then change the name to ‘All products’
And click ‘update’.
So now we have changed the category name
Now if we go to our store page and click ‘refresh’
You can see that, the default category name has been changed.
Once you have changed the category name,
Next, let’s see how you can create subcategories on your website like this
Let’s say you have a set of products, which are related to men and you want
to create a separate category for those products and add it under ‘men’
You can do that easily by creating subcategories
So to create a your sub-category
Just go back to your WordPress dashboard
Now go to products and click ‘CATEGORIES’
Now here enter the new sub-category name which you want to create
I’m going to enter ‘shoes’
Next, you need to choose under which parent category, you
want to add this subcategory.
I’m going to add this to ‘men’
So let’s click here and select ‘men’
And then click ‘add new category’
Now our new subcategory has been created
So to check it
let’s go to this tab
And then click ‘refresh’
As you can see, we now have a new subcategory
under the men’s category.
So this is how you can create a new subcategory on your website.
Now If you click on it
You can see that, we do not have any products in our subcategory
So Next, let’s see how you can add products to this subcategory.
So to add the products
Let’s go to our dashboard
And click ‘all products’
Like we did before
Let’s select the products which we want to add to our subcategory
Once you have selected the products
Click here
And click edit
Then click ‘apply’
Now select the subcategory ‘shoes’ which is under ‘men’
And click ‘update’
And now our products will be added to the subcategory
Now if we go to this tab and click ‘refresh’
You can see that, we now have the products in our subcategory.
Once you have added the products to the subcategory.
how do you make this subcategory visible to your customers?
Next, let’s see how you can add this subcategory to
a dropdown menu like this
To add a dropdown menu,
Let’s click ‘customize’
And click ‘menus’
Then click ‘main menu’
Now click ‘add items’
And select ‘product categories’
Now select your subcategory which is ‘shoes’
And as you can see, it has been added to the menu.
Now to add this as a dropdown menu under 'men'
Just drag this menu and place it like this
So to save the changes
click ‘publish’.
Now if we go to our website
And click ‘refresh’
You can see that, we now have a dropdown option on men
Now if we go to ‘men’
And click ‘shoes’
You can see that, we have the products on our subcategory ‘shoes’.
So this is how you can add your categories in a dropdown menu.
That’s it guys
So now you know how you can add product categories to your WordPress website.
And now, if you want to know how to deliver products your customers, you can watch this video
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Thanks for watching,
I’ll see you in the next video,
Take care, Bye -bye!