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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 category menus in Drupal Commerce


Having products on your store is all very well, but how do your customers find the products in your store? E-commerce websites typically make use of navigation menus to provide an easy way to access the primary categories that products fall in to.

While some customers may find your products easily enough on your Drupal Commerce store, adding navigation menus of your product categories provides another way for customers to find the type of products they are looking for.

Getting ready

Log in to your Drupal Commerce store as an administrator, and navigate to Products | Categories.

Tip

This recipe assumes you have the Commerce Kickstart Menus module enabled.

How to do it...

Start adding your store's category navigation menu by following these steps:

  1. Select the Add categories option at the top of the screen that appears:

    Give the new menu a name, and provide a description to remind you of this category's purpose:

  2. Expand the Taxonomy menu block below this, and...