Replace A Category With A Page Of Information

[deadfish]

I run a snow chain prestashop store... currently I think the navigation is a little confusing for the user.

 

Snow chains are very specific to the tyre size of your car, so it makes little sense to have a customer browsing the entire 'snow chain' category. I have a little block plugin I wrote in the side bar with the relevant tyre size options which performs a search, but I can see a high drop out rate on the category page and visitors browsing the 2nd, 3rd, 4th page... which is pointless.

 

I would like to link the category of snow chains to a page of information explaining that they need to find out their tyre size and then have a set of drop downs for them to fill out.

 

How would it be easiest to achieve this? With a CMS page and modify the block_category plugin?

 

My other concern is without the category list will google be able to spider the site as effectively?

[Guest Stephen Bromfield]

Hi deadfish,

 

Do you think that layed navigation will not help you?

 

 

-Stephen

[deadfish]

I decided to go ahead with your idea of subcategorising everything. Unfortunately I have found I can not. I have found an issue with duplicate categories:

 

e.g

 

snow chains > 15" tyres > 215/70-15

snow socks > 15" tyres > 215/70-15

 

Is there a way to create multiple categories with the same name?

[Guest Stephen Bromfield]

Yes. You shouldn't have to do anything different, just create whatever category you want.