Product category different from Home

[GraceGoh]

Hi,

 

I need help for Prestashop 1.5.4.1.  Would be grateful if Presta experts can help here  .  

By default, presta groups products under Home as the parent category.  I need to create a parent category (still retaining home), maybe call it Age Group so that I can list my products under various age groups.  I want this Age Group category to appear in the top horizontal menu but I do not want it to appear in the Category listing on the left hand side.  Also do not want it to appear in the Home category.

 

Can someone help please?  I have been reading the forums, googled and checked the manuals but they don't seem to have an answer. 

 

Thanks a lot ....

[Paulito]

Good morning

 

The simplest way to do this with coding (not my forte) is to:

 

1. Add a new category, for example, "Invisible"

http://screencast.com/t/xSkh9CJtOH3r

 

2. Add your sub-Categories to "Invisible"

http://screencast.com/t/T1CRlagk2

 

3. Go to Top Horizontal Menu module and add "Invisible"

http://screencast.com/t/e0gr9Sagf

 

4. Add Products to your categories

http://screencast.com/t/qbxyTPEaC

 

5. Disable "Invisible"

http://screencast.com/t/90IyCkpqfuz

 

This is probably not the best way, but it works. Also not sure if it will affect links or SEO.

 

Paul

[GraceGoh]

Morning Paul!  

 

Thank you so much for replying.  I have tried this method before but I really need to have the same subcategories appearing in the Home category and the new category - "Invisible" (e.g. in this case).  As of the default, one subcategory can only be grouped under one parent category.  Is there a workaround?  

 

Hope you can help me as it's really important that I do this.

 

Thank you, Paul!