Category Options

All the category views in MyMuse, inlcuding "List All Categories", "Category plus Product Blog", "Category plus Products in a List" have the option sections "Category" and "Shared Options".

The views "Categories by Alphabet" and "List of Tracks" have a limited sets of "Category" options.

The "Shared Options" apply to Alphabet, Blog and List types of Category menus.

 

Category Options

 

 

The options tab "Category" has the following options:

• Category Title: Show/hide the Category title. The title is usually displayed inside an "H2" tag.
• Category Description: Show or hide the description of the selected Category.
• Category Image: Show or hide the image of the selected Category.
• Image Height: Height for category images.
• Subcategory Levels: Maximum number of levels of subcategories to show.
• Number of Columns: The number of colums to show.
• Empty Categories: If Show, empty categories will display. A category is only empty - if it has no items or subcategories.
• No Products Message: If Show, the message 'There are no products in this category' will display when there are no products in the category and 'Empty Categories' is set to show.
• Show Subcat Image: Show/Hide the subcategory's image.
• Subcategories Descriptions: Show/Hide the subcategory's descriptions.
• Truncate Description: Maximum number of Characters to show in description.
• Show Product Count: If Show, the number of products in the category will show.
• Page Subheading: Optional text to show as a subheading.
• Show All Products: Show/Hide all products.
• Show Product Image: Show/Hide product images.
• Product Image height: Height for product images on listing pages.
• Show Intro Text: Show/Hide Intro Text.
• Link titles: On Products, link title to product detail page.

Shared Options

Shared Options include:

• Category Order: Sort order for Categories. Called 'primary_ordering' in the code, May be one of:
  
  • No Order
  • Title Alphabetical
  • Title Reverse Alphabetical
  • Category Manager Order

Product Order

: Sort order of products if shown. Called 'secondary_ordering' in the code. May be one of
• Most Recent First
• Oldest First
• Title Alphabetical
• Title Reverse Alphabetical
• Author Alphabetical
• Author Reverse Alphabetical
• Most Hits
• Least Hits
• Most Sales
• Discount
• Reverse Discount
• Product Manager Order
• Date for Ordering: If sorting on Most Recent or Oldest,  choose which date is to be used:
  
  • Created
  • Modified
  • Published
  • Release Date
• Pagination: Show/Hide pagination
• Pagination Results: Show/Hide pagination results: example "Page 1 of 4"