Product list page is the most important starting page for the shopping life cycle. While the landing page will give some general information regarding the shop, the list of items for sale in the shop is the major job of the product list page. Some shop owners even prefer to use product list page as their home page. Product list page is in singular, but actually the product list page is a series of pages. The total number of pages in the series varies from store-to-store and typically depends on the number of categories you have in the site. Each category will have its own page or even pages, if the category contains many products. Furthermore, the product list page is also used to list the products that relate to a particular manufacturer. It is also used for the keyword search and advanced search, if you enable the product search and advanced search Joomla! modules or the product search Joomla! plugin.
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