See also Creating Sub Categories on Website Navigation Bar
Categories on the website allow a customer to find a specific brewery / country / beer style. When new products are created with new breweries the brewery is then also automatically created, however the process below also outlines how to create a category.
Note once a new brewery has been created it should be added to this sheet, with the information from it used to update the brewery page.
To add new categories do the following:
1. In BigCommerce backend go to Products>Product Categories
2. Click Create Category
3. Enter the name - for Breweries this is a shortened version with Brewery/Brewing etc removed e.g. Riverside Brewing Company is just listed as Riverside otherwise on the Brewery page http://www.beercartel.com.au/beer/brewery/ there is a large duplication of words which makes it harder to find what you are after.
4. Select the parent category e.g. for Riverside this is Australia under Beer > Brewery> Australia - ensure this is reflected in the URL e.g. /beer/brewery/australia/riverside/
5. For the Template Layout File select category_with_facts.html - ensure this is selected and not just category.html otherwise the page will not show Show Only in Stock / Style / price on the left hand side of the page.
6. Page Title should be written as: [BREWERY NAME/STYLE] Beers Online - Beer Cartel e.g. Riverside Beers Online - Beer Cartel
7. Meta Description: Browse Riverside breweries range of beers online. Australia's largest range of Craft Beers online from the worlds finest breweries.
8. Once completed Save & Exit
9. Click on Products > Product Categories - enter the parent product category that the new category has been entered into and check the new entry is ordered correctly alphabetically.
See Brewery Listing
Categories in Country / Brewery / Style listing
Country, Brewery and Style categories are automatically created when they are created and the custom app sync is run.
To add flags to each country go the category e.g. Product Categories > Beer > Country > Estonia and Product Categories > Beer > Estonia add in the flag - then run the sync.
For the four beers on the brewery page, or for the four focus styles on the Style page these need to be updated in the coding in the app. To update the logos they can be done by going to the Brewery category page and then running the sync on the custom app.