HELP!!!

somethingpretty · Posts: 190

I have made a big mess of my categories in my Store.
I have all the W/Gigs in a individual category and would like to change it to just 1 central category. How do I accomplish this?
Thanks,
Bettye (somethingpretty)

zickit · Posts: 21857

somethingpretty · Posts: 190

Mr. Tall, I have multiple W/Gigs listed such as:
Blue Bird W/Gig,
Mallard W/Gig,
Humming Bird W/Gig
Canada Goose W/Gig, etc.etc.
They come up individually.
I want all of them to be under 1 standard W/Gig category eliminating all the repeated ones individually

Category to be~~~ (Whirligigs)

Thanks hope this clears it up for you. I don't want to wipe all that work out so I want you to understand what I mean so I will get instructions I can understand from you.
Thanks so very much for your help.
Bettye (somethingpretty)

zickit · Posts: 21857

Just follow my instructions -
FIRST create the category you want them in.
Second go to products, find one you want moved, click on the pencil to the right of the title, change to the category you want it in.
Do that for all the items.
Then go to categories and click on the red X of the categories you want to delete.

MOVE the items FIRST or you will delete them!

And all will be fine!

somethingpretty · Posts: 190

Mr. Tall- thanks for trying to help me, but I have tried and I don't understand what to do. I am terrified of messing up and loosing all that hard work. I did loose one already.
I will see if my sister understands it, and can help me.
Bettye (somethingpretty)

poopsheet · Posts: 4865

Create a new category in the same way you created the others.

Log in to Admin > Click Categories > Click Add New Category

Call the new category "Whirligigs" or whatever you want.

Once that's done go into each whirligig item page (in Admin), scroll down to "Local Category", find your new category ("Whirligigs") in the list and choose it. (You edit the items by clicking on Products, find the item you want to edit and click the pencil icon to the right of it.)

Once you hit the Update button at the bottom that item will now be moved to the new category.

Make sense? Try one and then go to your store (not Admin) and see the results.

somethingpretty · Posts: 190

Poopsheet- I got them all put into the new WHIRLIGIG category but they are still showing up on my full list of categories with ~~~0~~~ listed beside each one of them I changed. I wanted to cut them down to just 1 category showing all of them . What should I do now?
Bettye (somethingpretty) Embarassed

silvermoonxtreme · Guest

Go under catagories and delete them, next to the catagory you want to delete click the "x"

poopsheet · Posts: 4865

poopsheet · Posts: 4865

And your category list looks much nicer, by the way!

EverythingNice · Posts: 688

I like your sewing machine shelves, like this one...

http://somethingpretty.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=567805

I did not see the measurements of the little shelves. Did I miss them? Good luck with your shop.

somethingpretty · Posts: 190

to EverythingNice, poopsheet, silvermoonxtremes and BTM.
for all the good help and the complements on my finished task.
Now how do I get the categories to show up on the shop front page as Featured categories?
Bettye (somethingpretty)

zickit · Posts: 21857

thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat · Posts: 10159

Just love that sewing machine shelf. If I knew anyone who sewed that would be their Christmas gift this year. Really clever.

somethingpretty · Posts: 190

They will probably be there Christmas.
I have only sold 3 item on Ecrater so far. I craft those all the time though- they have been good eBay sellers.
Just let me know when you need one, it doesn't matter when.
Bettye (somethingpretty)