How To Add Product Categories to Your Ecommerce Website

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Learn how you can create product categories on your ecommerce website.

Let’s say you’ve an ecommerce website and you’ve different kinds of products in it.

Now how do arrange each of them into categories?

You can do that easily by following our 3 simple steps.

So let’s get started.

Table of contents :

0:00 Intro

1:09 Create Your Categories

2:35 Add Products to Your Categories

5:35 Adding Categories to Menu

8:02 Add a Sidebar to Your Site

9:09 Display Categories on Sidebar

10:20 Changing Name for Default Category

11:44 Creating Sub-Category

13:25 Adding Products to Sub-Category

14:54 Adding Sub-Category to a Drop-Down Menu

Step 1 : Create Your Categories

To create categories,

Go to WordPress dashboard ► Products ► Categories

Now enter the name of your category & click ‘Add new category’.

As soon as you click it, your category will be added.

In the same way you can create as many categories as you want.

Step 2 : Add Products to Your Categories

To add products to your categories,

Go to WordPress dashboard ► All Products

Now here you will have all the products on your website.

Now select the products you want to add to your category which you’ve created.

Once you’ve selected the products, choose ‘Edit’ in the bulk actions.

Now select the category in which you want to add all the products you’ve selected

And click ‘Update’.

So now the product which you’ve selected will be added to the category.

In the same way you can add all the products in your website to their respective categories.

Step 3 : Adding Categories to Menu

In the home page of your website, you don’t have the categories you’ve created in the menu.

To add the categories to menu so that your customers can navigate easily,

Go to WordPress dashboard ► Appearance ► Customize

Now click on Menu ► Main Menu ► Add Items ► Product Categories

Now select the categories you want to add to your menu and click ‘Publish’.

So this is how you can add product categories to your menu

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Now let’s say you want to display your categories on the sidebar of your website.

So to display the sidebar, first you need to add a sidebar layout to your store page.

Go to WordPress dashboard ► Appearance ► Customize ► Sidebar

Now if you’re using themes like ‘Astra’ you will have the sidebar option under ‘WooCommerce’

If you’re using a different theme, then the sidebar option is under ‘Default Layout’.

Now just choose the type of sidebar you want and the sidebar layout will be added on the page.

Now to display the categories in the sidebar,

Go to Customize ► Widgets ► WooCommerce Sidebar ► Add Widget

Now in the search bar, search for ‘Product Categories’ & Click on it.

Once you click it, your categories will be added on the sidebar.

Now if you want to change the default category name,

Go to WordPress dashboard ► Products ► Categories

Now just click on ‘Quick Edit’ under the default category and then change the name you want.

Now click ‘Update’ and your category name will be changed.

Now let’s say you want to create a sub-category.

Go to WordPress dashboard ► Products ► Categories

Enter the name of your category

Now under the ‘Parent category’ choose to which category you want to add this subcategory.

Once you’ve selected click ‘Add new category’.

And now your subcategory will be added.

Like we did before, you need to add the products you want to display in subcategory.

So just follow the process in step 2 and add your products.

You can also add this subcategory as a drop down in the menu by going to ‘Customize’ option.

That’s it guys.

This is how you can create product categories on your ecommerce website.

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