Extensions > isotope_category

Isotope Category

[isotope_category]

Easily manage categories for Isotope

This extension adds category management into Isotope. The new category system allows a shop admin to create a category structure without having to edit the site structure. This module essentially creates and manages the site structure, any changes also made to through the site structure will be reflected in the categories module.

The product details page is also modified so the file tree only shows pages in the categories list and not all the pages in the site structure. There is also a add to homepage tickbox for showing items on the homepage, initial page needs to be used for this.

Insert tags can be placed in a module (html) in the page layout to pull in category title and description, this saves admins having to add a heading or description in an article. You will need to place you product listing module on the page layout and not in each article.

Place this in a module for category title: {{env::page_title}}
Place this in a module for the category description: {{isotope_category_description}}

This module requires the initial page checkbox from the Google sitemap module. It uses this as a reference to list all categories after the homepage.

You cannot add existing site structure pages to this module so is only really ideal for new websites built using isotope or if you are happy to create new pages and manage name and alias changes.