Make your category navigation as practical as possible
Provide your users with more flexibility and ease in browsing categories from your layered navigation.
Present your sub-categories in a category tree
Make the navigation more fluid and relevant by presenting your categories and sub-categories in a tree.
Provide more info to users by displaying products count
Products count display enabled — Add the number of products available in each category.
Products count display disabled — Hide the number of products available in each category.
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How to use Category Navigation for Magento 2
The Category Navigation extension will help you to present your sub-categories in a category tree in your front-end and so to make the navigation more fluid and relevant.
You can first enable the extension from: Stores › settings › Configuration › Wyomind › Category Navigation
Manage the display
Once the extension is enabled, you have the possibility to display or not the products count.
Products count enabled
If the products count display is enabled, you should see the number of products available in each category.
Products count disabled
You can also hide the number of products available in each category by disabling the option.
FAQ
Pre-sales informations
Magento versions supported by Category Navigation
This extension works with Magento Community Edition and also Magento Enterprise Edition. To know if Category Navigation is compatible with your Magento version, please check the Compatibility tab.
Magento Open Source vs Magento Commerce vs Magento Commerce Cloud
Magento offers three variations of its product.
As their names have changed over the past few years, here is a recap:
Magento Open Source: previously Magento Community Edition (CE), is a free and non-hosted e-commerce platform.
Magento Commerce: previously Magento Enterprise (EE), is the paid version of Magento and offers support services.
Magento Commerce Cloud: is the paid version of Magento and offers support and hosting services.
License and domains
License validity
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single installation
If you're using more than one installation, you will have to buy a separate license for each instance.
if you're running several domains on a same installation, you will need only one license for all of them.
Although your license doesn’t have a limited period of validity, your Support & Upgrade period does. By purchasing a module, you’ll be granted a 12-month support period for free. Passed this period, you will have to pay for a new one (see FAQ: Extend your Support period)
Domains pre-registration
You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the module ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
Go to: mY account › Licenses & DOwnloads
Click on the Settings icon next to the module you want your domain to pre-register on.
Click on the link at the bottom of the page saying: Do you want to pre-register your domain in order to be ready to go live?
Finally, enter your domain name and click on pre-register now .
Testing environments
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one installation only. However, it is possible to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
If you would like to add your testing environments to your license. In that case, it is possible to extend your license to an unlimited number of domains for free. For mywebsite-staging.com or mywebsite-dev.com
If you want to transfer your license to another live domain. In that case, the Support & Upgrade period for your license must still be active.
To be able to use Category Navigation on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
Install Category Navigation on your environment. (see FAQ: Modules installation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Activate the license. (see FAQ: Licenses activation in Magento or in WooCommerce)
Also, if you are managing a large amount of domains, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Modules versioning and download
Extensions download
In order to download Category Navigation, log into your Wyomind account:
Go to: my account › Licenses & downloads
Click on the settings icon next to Category Navigation.
A new window opens.
Click on the download icon.
Only the latest extension version released within your Support & Upgrade period is available. In order to get the very latest extension version make sure your Support & Upgrade plan is up to date.
Modules upgrade
When purchasing a module from wyomind.com, you benefit from 12 months of upgrade. Within this period you can at any time download the latest version of the module directly from your account.
To upgrade Category Navigation, follow the steps below:
Go to: my account › Licenses & Downloads
Click on the settings icon next to Category Navigation.
Click on the download icon.
Install the new version of Category Navigation in your Magento admin or your WooCommerce back-office.
Modules Installation/Uninstallation
Extensions manual installation
You can install Category Navigation manually.
Download Category Navigation (zip file) on: mY ACCOUNT › Licenses & Downloads Refer to the FAQ: Extensions download
Once Category Navigation is downloaded, open the folder and unzip it.
Copy the content of the unzipped folder and paste all files and directories in your Magento 2 root directory.
In your Command Line Interface, execute:
bin/magento setup:upgrade
If you are using a production mode, execute also:
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
bin/magento setup:di:compile
Extensions installation via Composer
You can install Category Navigation using Composer software in two cases:
if you purchased Category Navigation on Magento Marketplace.
if you purchased Category Navigation on Wyomind.com AND requested access to our repository: repo.wyomind.com
Add to your composer configuration our repository:
Extensions activation from the back-office of Magento
Once Category Navigation is installed, you have to activate the license. For previous versions, you can activate the license from your back-office:
Go to your Magento admin panel. A message pops up at the top of the page.
If the message doesn't appear then you must check that:
1. The Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are well enabled. 2. The HTML output of the Adminhtml_Notifications and Wyomind_Core modules are not disabled in: storesconfigurationadvanced advanced 3. The encryption key well exists in app/etc/env.php:
Copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
You can find your activation key in 2 different places: - In the confirmation email that you received after purchasing Category Navigation. - In your Wyomind account: My account › Licenses & downloads Select Category Navigation and click on .
A new page opens where you'll find your activation key (see below).
In your Magento admin go to: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
Paste the activation key in the Activation Key field and choose between the automatic (yes) or the manual (no) activation method: - By choosing Yes, the connection to Wyomind license server will be automatic. - By choosing No, you will have to log on to Wyomind license server yourself.
Click on Save config .
A message appears at the top of your admin panel. Click on that link: Activate it now!
Copy and paste the license code in theLicense code field from your admin or simply click on Activate now!
Finally, refresh your cache, log out and log in back straight after, to complete the installation.
Add another domain to your license
To activate the license on another domain (test, staging...):
Once the extension is installed on the new domain, copy your activation key in: Stores › Configuration › Wyomind › Your extension
After having saved the configuration, a notification appears. Click on Add this domain to my license.
A transfer request will then be sent to our team within an hour. Once the request is taken care of, you will receive a confirmation email. If your transfer request is accepted, you can use Category Navigation on both environments at the same time.
Note that the order in which you activate your license on your domains does not matter. You can start with your staging/dev/local environment or with your live domain, the process will be the same.
Also, if you have loads of staging domains, or if you are an agency managing load of domains for your customers, please contact us so that we can automatically whitelist these domains.
Extensions activation from the CLI
Once Category Navigation is installed, you have to activate the license.
For this, you can use the below command line (change the Activation key with the corresponding value):