Categories and menus

  • Good day,

    I am beyond confused \ lost. I am creating clothing store site, and I am having difficulty understand categories and menu or may be what want is not doable. My issue is trying to have multiple main categories, but the same sub-categories assigned to different products.

    For example, pants, shorts, shoes jus to mention a few. These categories apply men, women and children

    The idea would be to have a menu with Women, Men, and Kids as the main categories then sub-categories.

    when a visitor hover over women, they would see pants once they click on pants on women pants would be displayed. Sale would apply for men and children.

    What i am trying not to do is create a sub-categories like women-pants and men-pants.

    I tried searching but all find is how to create categories and tags, nothing related to my scenario.

    Any help and guidance are much appreciated.

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Clothing Man.
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  • Hi, Clothing Man. I think of Menus as being like pages. Pages must be unique. Pages can have sub-pages, i.e. be hierarchical. Here’s what I don’t understand. You said:

    “The idea would be to have a menu with Women, Men, and Kids as the main categories then sub-categories. When a visitor hovers over women, they would see pants once they click on pants on women pants would be displayed. Same would apply for men and children. What I am trying not to do is create a sub-categories like women-pants and men-pants.”

    First you said that you want Women, Men, Kids as main categories. Women would have pants as a sub-category. But then you said you DON’T want Women-pants as a sub-category?

    If no sub-categories: If your WordPress theme allows it, you can make 3 Menus/Pages across the top of your static landing page, named Men, Women, Children. You could then make multiple sub-pages associated with each of the 3. So there would be a high-level Women page, and under that, there would be a drop-down with the choice of Pants, Skirts, or Jackets. Each would be a sub-page. Same for Men and Children, except Men probably wouldn’t have Skirts but Children might.

    If you DO want categories: Categories must be unique. Categories can have a hierarchy of sub-categories below them. Sub-categories are unique too. Start by choosing Men, Women, Children as your top-level categories. For each of the 3, create sub-categories. Men might have sub-categories shirts, pants, jackets. Women might have shirts, skirts, pants, jackets. Children might have shirts and pants. Each category/sub-category combination is unique, even though some sub-category names are the same. So Men/shirts is different than Women/shirts or Children/shirts.

    Tags are simpler than categories or pages/menus. Tags aren’t hierarchical, i.e. there are no sub-tags. Tags don’t have any built-in relationship to each other, nor to categories or pages. Let’s say you offer 5 colors of pants, and 3 fabrics. You can use tags here. Create 5 tags blue, brown, beige, black, and white and 3 tags cotton, wool, and linen. You can use the blue tag for Women’s skirts and for Men’s pants. You can also use the blue tag AND the wool tag for Women’s skirts. You can use as many tags for an item as you want. Or you might choose not to use tags at all.

    I hope this helps?

    • This reply was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Ellie Kesselman. Reason: Make clearer and remove extra details that don't pertain to the question
    Thread Starter Clothing Man

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    Thank you, Ellie, for your detail explanation.

    My Apologies if I did not explain it clearly. What I mean by “I don’t want a women pants” category. I am referring to not having a “Women Pants” as a category but only “Pants.”

    What I would like is that if a customer hovers over “Women,” they would see a sub-category called “Pants.” Once they select the pants category, it would only display women’s pants. The same goes for “Men.” Once they hover over “Men,” they would see “pants,” and once they select parts, they would only see men’s pants. What I don’t want is to have a sub category named “women parts” or “men pants” I only want to see pants.

    I am trying to accomplish the same menu structure as “https://www.macys.com” i just don’t know is i am asking for too much.

    I am using “Porto” theme and is I have to buy a plugin to accomplish what i want i am ok getting is.

    Hope i explained it better this time.

    Thanks

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