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Hey Robin and co. – I’m finally getting my hands dirty with the new Symbol! I’m building a brand-new site with different domain name from scratch – so I’m forced to learn how to use Symbio from the ground up. So far the empty site is connected and visible online, now I’m playing with the customizations. I’m using the free Woothemes Storefront theme – but I can’t figure out how to add a simple drop-down menu of custom categories, and it’s driving me nuts! How do I do this??
My WordPress for Dummies book says customize the code, but when the theme updates, I’ll lose my customizations – so I’d rather use a plugin. It seemed like the “Widgetize Navigation Menu” plugin would do the trick, but no it doesn’t or I’m just doing it wrong. Can someone please tell me how to do this??
I need to be able to add a lot of categories over time, have them appear in a pulldown in the top Navigation, and have each category also exist as its own page URL displaying all items that have been appropriately categorized. Please help, thank you!!
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.comLooks like I figured out the Nav menu issue – However I still have a problem. When I assign categories to my uploaded image’s Symbio page in that widget on the right, it’s still not showing up after I refresh the page in my browser and pull down to the appropriate menu – what am I doing wrong? Is there more to this procedure of assigning categories to a product?
thanks
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.comHey George, thank very much for your help – incidentally, this isn’t on my old site, this is a new one I’m building, Clipartman.com.
I tried what you suggested and was able to create a category that appears in my Image Categories dropdown menu. But the problem I’m still having is that when I go to my test product’s page to indicate which categories it should appear under, this new category doesn’t show in the Product Category box.
I see you can define a category as “Product” is under Symbistock->Categories. So I duplicated the name (“Fireman”, using your example) and defined it there as a Product Category. But it’s still not showing up when I edit the product’s specs under Symbiostock->Media in the Product Categories box on the right of the page.
Furthermore, I can evidently create new Product Categories in the box, but they still don’t show up under my Image Categories dropdown in Nav, nor do they appear under View All in the Categories box at left under Appearance->Menus, so I can’t add them manually to my Menu Structure.
There seem to be at least 3 different places where you can create new categories, 2 of which let you define them specifically as “Product” categories, but I’m unable to get more of these into my dropdown menu.
There must be a “proper” way to do this very basic and frequently-required function, specifically for Symbio products that you want to appear in Category menus in the Nav. I’m obviously doing it wrong, can you please tell me the correct procedure for this?
Thanks very much for your help!
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.comI solved it! The solution is to:
1) create a new category in Symbiostock->Categories
2) Go to Appearance->Customize->Menus->Navigation and add the categories into the menu hierarchy from there.
What a relief! Thanks for your help, George —
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.comI hear ya George, thanks very much for your helpful input. I’ll check this out!
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.comHey George – I like the Advanced Woo Search and just installed it. But now how do I get rid of the redundant default Symbio Search field that was in my upper right corner (using the free Storefront Wootheme)?
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.com…also, do you know how to Hide breadcrumbs? I can’t get rid of that thing – thanks!
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.comGot it – thank you!
Kenny Kiernan
https://www.clipartman.com
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