I have a Joomla site with a few branches of categories.
One branch of categories is about brands where the Articles are a presentation of a Brand. Example: Brands->European->German->Mercedes(Article).
Another Branch is about Parts and services where an Article represents one part. Example: Parts->Interior->DashBoard->Odometer(Article).
What I need to do is once I click in an Article Inside the Brands category, lets say "Mercedes", and then go to the Parts branch of categories, I need it to display only the Parts (articles) that are related to the Mercedes Articles.
How can I achieve this?
How can I related one Article from one category branch to another article from another category branch?
How can I than use it as a filter in the Parts Category?
I'm considering other ways of doing this, but this is an website that was given to me like this, with hundreds of categories and articles already set that I only need to filter Parts articles according to Brands Articles previously clicked.
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I am working with different modules in Joomla (2.5) in order to display a variety of things. Right now I am trying to show the featured article of a specific category.
For example: I have three different pages, all showing articles specified by its own category.
Bikes
Gears
Media
Each of these pages has a range of article (lets says 20 each). Each of these sets of articles has a featured article. So there is a featured article for Bikes, Gears and Media.
My problem is trying to get this featured article to display at the top of each main page. I've tried using the Articles by Category module and I've looked into the Article - Newsflash module as well as looking at the code of the front page where a "featured article" typically appears.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a module I may be able to use?
No module needed. Here are two ways you can accomplish this:
In the Blog Layout Options for your Category Blog menu item, set Article Order to Featured Articles Order.
Alternatively, make a new parent category for each existing category and put the featured article in the parent. Set your blog page to show the parent category and the subcategories. Hide the subcategory headings on the page with menu item settings and/or CSS.
I have a quick how to question with Magento.
On my main site I need to have 7 links to special "categories" of items, but these don;t reflect categories of items. It is for a clothes shop so link may be to a summer wear page to only display items tagged as summer wear but from all types of item and categories.
What would the best way to go about creating this functionality?
I am assuming that when you say 'taged' you mean the product has a attribute set to 'summer'. In that case:
If you have products that you want to group together by attribute and list similar to a category page without being in a category, you could try using the Fishpig Splash Page extension:
http://fishpig.co.uk/attribute-splash-pages.html
This extensions allows product attributes to group products instead of categories.
I hope I understood your question correctly.
You can create categories for each of the 7 pages you mention, but hide them from the navigation in the category settings page.
you can then add your products to these categories as you see fit.
They will still be in their original categories too, but you can now link to the new pages and see them there too.
It seems like to me, you would just create the categories like normal. Because products can belong to many categories, you would just assign on a per-product basis which ones need to be in your categories.
i'm creating a big online clothing shop using magento and i was wondering - is there any good solution to handle genders in magento? I need to be able to add products to Male or Female gender but also to some categories like pants, hats or jackets. Categories are the same for both genders so using Gender as top-level category and clothing-categories as gender sub-categories would be a bit redundant i think.
Any ideas or tips would be appreciated, thanks in advance!
I've seen Magento stores where Male/Female are the top level categories, and it works well because generally the first thing customers would like to do is see only Male/Female items.
Another alternative is to create a new "Select" attribute for gender (Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes) and set a gender for all products. Then you could set up top level categories for Jackets, etc and allow customers to filter by gender using the layered navigation.
Given your category tree is the same, and gender is equally appropriate as an attribute of a product as it is a category - it would make sense simply to use attributes to facilitate it. Otherwise you will have a needless duplication of category tree.
Using a multiple select attribute for "gender" with two options "Male/Female" - you would be able to have the 1 to many, 1 to 1 relationship that you need for the products.
Then it is just a case of adapting your menu to suit. You could easily just append
&gender=male
to your menu URL and it would pre-select the appropriate filter from the layered navigation.
The better way
Would be to add a custom extension to "shop by X", gender in your case - then customise your top nav to reflect the shop by Male/Female options. Then you would have cleaner SEO urls to capture keyword phrases for "Mens suit jackets" by having a landing page for such.
Planning this element of your store is critical and the implementation even more so, to make it both scalable and a positive shopping experience for your customer.
I'm looking for a Magento addin that replaces Related Products with Related Categories.
I maintain a Magento site which sells inspirational merchandise. People often arrive at the site and see something they like, but not completely. For example, they may see a paperweight with a quotation they like, but they want a baseball cap with the same quotation. Or, the may like the paperweight but want a different quotation on it. Products are all categorized & sub-categorized on the site, but many shoppers just hit Back if they don't see an obvious & easy way to get exactly what they want.
I want to automatically place a box on the right side of each product page (much like Related Products) which lists links to several category pages, instead of individual products (there are too many). For example, you'd have automatically-generated links like "Other products with the same quotation," "Other products with the same design," etc. I'd be OK if the categories listed were either all of the categories the product belongs to, or a list that the admin can manually create fore each product.
Also, I said category, but it'd be ok if this worked on keywords/phrases, attributes, or something like that -- whatever's out there.
Thanks!
One way that you can achieve this is to adapt your Related Products block to show only the categories of the related products that have been assigned, not the products themselves.
For instance, if you have related products of 'Apples' (in fruit), 'Bagels' (in bread) and 'Cucumbers' (in vegetables) then you need not show 'Apples/Bagels/Cucumbers' and instead you could show 'Fruit/Bread/Vegetables'.
I have not checked how you can the master category for each of the related products, you may need to add that to the collection for it to show up in the template.
The advantage of this technique is that you can theme up the related products and not have to write a complicated module.
I would like to have a small number of pages on my site that have some text, and then an associated group of products eg, here is a picture of a nice kitchen, the things we sell that are included in this picture are below. I would like people to be able to click on the product and be taken to that product's page AND I plan to implement functionality that would allow you to add all of the products directly to the basket.
Caveat: All of my main product pages are of Configurable Products, and I would like to "Feature" certain Simple Products on the above pages, eg: this is a picture of a kitchen, we are using a blue lamp. This links directly to the "Lamp" page, but if you add this to basket, you'll get a blue lamp.
I have created the pages as Magento CMS pages and had created a specific inactive category of products for each page. This doesn't work because it links directly to the product in the inactive category, and not the actual category, eg: clicking wants to take you to /kitchinA/lampA.html instead of /lamps/lampA.html
What is the best way for me to include multiple groups of "featured" products, on different pages?
How about using related products?