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How to add categories to the home page in Magento

By: Ryan Wong at

When I started my first magento(ver. 1.9.1.0) project, I got really confused as to how to add categories to the home page.

Here’s what I did to solve it:

1.Go to admin panel > Catalog > Manage Categories. Add your categores as sub categories under Default Category.

2.Click into the Category you added and make sure the setting ‘Is Active’ and ‘Include in Navigation Menu’ are yes.

3.Go to Catalog > Manage Products > Add Product. While filling in the product information, make sure that you set the following:

  • category for the product
  • under Inventory set Qty and Stock Availability

If you did all the above steps, you should see your category and products under it. You must have a product to see the category.
If you don’t see the category, you can do the following:

  • System > Index Management > Reindex Data on all Indexes

Hope This helps you out.