[Resolved] Change Shop Design

[David]

Loving the theme so far, just a couple of questions.

Currently I have the SHOP set as the homepage……which is just showing products. How can I change this so that instead of showing products, we show categories, with a featured image for each?

I notice on the MERCH demo in the site library you have a slider at the top, then a couple of large images which link to categories…..how could I achieve something similar?

Cheers guys.

[David]

Hi there,

Merch simply uses the Gutenberg Blocks to create those images and links its all manual editing, whereas Niche uses the Woocommerce Shortcodes to display categories – list of them can be found here:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/

The shortcode Niche uses for categories is: [product_categories] with some additonal parameters for limiting it to parent categories only.

You can create a static home page and add these codes with any other content to create a similar look.

[David]

Thanks David
Im just giving it a go via elements….following your instructional video but not having much joy….

Done a quick video here which shows elements are not working….do elements work with these theme?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kPlnLcmWiQwN-hpz3BQdrI3gfhwa4qjt/view

[David]

Couple of things:

1. Header Elements must have some content ( text area below title ). To show only an image add a HTML comment eg.

<!-- Header Element -->

2. Add some top and bottom padding as this controls the height of the element.

[David]

Cheers mate….thats been a huge help. I’ve edited the code like this;

<!– Header Element –>

And site looks good 🙂

https://www.dwellbelle.com/

[David]

Awesome – glad to be of help 🙂

[Matthias]

Got a question about niche from the site library:

What is the reason that gutenberg plugin is installed?
The plugin is offering a more actual version – i get that. But as it is also included in core itself i wonder what is the reason behind that?

[David]

Hi there,

the Gutenberg Plugin installs the latest version of the editor.
The one included in core is around 4 – 6 weeks behind that.

At the time some of the Sites were built there were still quite a lot of Gutenberg bugs in core that the Plugin had fixed. Today its not really necessary and I will probably remove it when the Sites are next updated.

[Matthias]

thx – i thought it would be something like that.
update sounds nice – already saw some using gb (guess thats the main reason for you).
Regarding niche – as it is only using gutenberg and woocommerce its quite nice to have a minimal one like that.
currently trying it out to create a shop based on that. But update sounds like i could wait a little with that 😉

[David]

Glad to hear you like the Site 🙂
The Niche update would be to use GenerateBlocks – but thinking about it that would only be the Title Header on the Home page lol

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