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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By : Richard Carter
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

<p>Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.<br /><br />This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.<br /><br />Going further into customisation, you will learn to add custom product types before creating a stylish new Drupal theme for your store. Packed with tips, this book will also help guide you through common problems, as well as optimising and managing your store on a day to day basis.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" will guide you through everything you need to know to get your online store up and running and selling your products, with easy step-by-step guides and screenshots to help walk you through everything.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating product categories in Drupal Commerce


A common feature of e-commerce websites is their ability to display products arranged by categories. This can be replicated in Drupal Commerce by making use of the inbuilt taxonomy system of Drupal, which can be used to categorize all content on your website (that is, not just your products).

With Drupal Commerce Kickstart 2, categories are built in as a feature, as you would expect in any e-commerce platform, and can allow customers to find the products they are looking for more quickly.

Getting started

Log in to your Drupal Commerce administration panel. If you installed the Drupal Commerce Kickstart demo store, you'll already be able to see some sample categories in your store!

How to do it...

To add a product category to your Drupal Commerce store, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Products | Categories in your Drupal Commerce administration panel (enable the Commerce Kickstart Menus grouped under Commerce Kickstart in Modules if you can't see this...