Comments on: Magento Ecommerce – Create New CMS Page & Add Link in Top Menu Along with Category Links

By: ben

ben — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:38:48 +0000

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.

By: Reid Walley

Reid Walley — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:31:24 +0000

As far as I can tell, Magento requires products to be in a category in order for the category link to appear in the navigation. Please make sure you have products in your categories.

By: RichAgent

RichAgent — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:59:03 +0000

After reading through the Magento User Guide it’s very clear how to create a new category and make the settings so that it will display as a link in the main navigation.

BUT after making these settings I am still not seeing these categories as links in my navigation.

After looking at top.phtml file it has the code to pull the categories…

Any Ideas ? Thanks!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:37:14 +0000

The Survey text link that was added to the navigation bar was hard coding into top.phtml. I don’t know of a way to do it dynamically.

With regard to displaying category links in the top navigation: do you mean displaying links in the “header-nav,” which contains all of the category titles, or displaying links in the “shop-access” nav, which is part of the “quick-access” section?

If you mean category links in the “header-nav,” please read: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/welcome_to_the_magento_user_s_guide/chapter_3#creating_categories

If you mean links in the “shop-access” nav, I haven’t attempted to add any links to that section yet and don’t have any followup information.

Good luck.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:19:16 +0000

So is there actually a way to do it dynamically or just hard coded?

Also – I can’t really find the way to display categories in the top navigation in the first place. I’ve been searching internet for hours now and nothing – any tip?

Thanks