magepow / magento-2-categories

Magento 2 Category Extension is a module that helps you present custom product categories on the pages, navigating customers to your featured product categories.

Magento 2 Categories Extension Free

Magento 2 Categories Extension Free allows you to take the shortest way to lead customers to their target pages. With this extension, you can show subcategories on category pages and choose the layout to display them as the grid or list. Aside from that, you also can show the hot categories or simply the chosen categories on the Homepage or any CMS page.

Categories extension free by Magepow is very easy to configure and manage, with no coding needed and responsive ready. With this extension, you can suggest to customers more content/products you have on your store and make an eye-catching look.

For example, your online store is selling a wide range of subcategories such as Tops, bottoms, pants, bags, jackets... might dozens of categories but you want when your customers come to your store, you want them to buy or know most of some products types that you concentrate more than normal products.

So this extension can help you show on the top of the page the hot categories are chosen from categories collection or show them on the top of the category pages to recommend to customers.

1. Highlight Features

Features	Free Version	Pro Version
Display optional subcategories on Home page	✅	✅
Display the subcategories as slider layout on the Home page	X	✅
Display optional subcategories on Category page	✅	✅
Display the subcategories as slider layout on the Categories page	X	✅
Display optional subcategories on Product page	X	✅
Display optional subcategories on Shopping Cart page	X	✅
Add or remove categories for the home pape and category pages as desired	✅	✅
Add or remove categories on each page as desired	X	✅
Multiple positions show categories	X	✅
Subcategory characteristics on homepage and category page vary with 2 independent installers	✅	✅
Subcategory block characteristics on each page can be individually customized using 'Category Pro Rule'	X	✅
Grid layout	✅	✅
List layout	✅	✅
Slider layout	X	✅
Sort the subcategories by Name	✅	✅
Sort the subcategories by Page Title	✅	✅
Sort the subcategories by Location	✅	✅
Sort the subcategories by Creation Date	✅	✅
Sort the subcategories by Admin tree	X	✅
Display subcategory with Block Title	✅	✅
Display subcategory with Description	✅	✅
Display subcategory with Thumbnail	✅	✅
Display subcategory with Item Amount	✅	✅
Full responsive design	✅	✅
Customize Responsive Information	X	✅
Display different categories with customer groups (Not logged in, General, Wholesale, Retailer)	X	✅
Free Support	X	✅

Display optional subcategories on Home page

Display optional subcategories on Category page

Display optional subcategories on Product page

Display optional subcategories on Shopping Cart page

See more: Demo free version - Demo Pro version

2. How to install Magento 2 Categories extension Free

✓ Install Magepow Categories via composer (recommend)

Run the following command in Magento 2 root folder:

composer require magepow/categories
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f

3. Magepow Categories user guide

SubCategories extension free for Magento allows customers access the categories quickly and conveniently, stimulating users to click on the categories because of the beautiful interface.

Enable Magepow Categories

Go to Admin Panel > Stores > Settings > Configuration > Magepow > Categories

Select Yes to enable module.

Setting Magepow SubCategories

Go to Admin Panel > Stores > Settings > Configuration > Magepow > Categories

• Two layouts available (Grid or List).
• Ability to sort subcategories by "Name", "Page Title", "Position", and "Created Date".
• Ability to show subcategories heading or not and to type in the heading text.
• Ability to show or not category description.
• Select categories that do not display subcategories.

The home page also has the same settings as the category page, except that:

• The home page can choose the display categories instead of excluding the display category.
• The home page can order the categories by 'custom sort', which will display in the order ids appear in the config value. You can curate this by manually setting the ids in the env.php file to override admin based config.

  ./bin/magento config:set -e magepow_categories/home_page/category_select "64,72,73,1052,68,69,70,1046,65,88,311"
  

• Select the categories displayed on the home page.

This Is Result In Frontend

In homepage

In categories page

How does Magento 2 Categories work?

Donation

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magento-2-categories's Issues

Parameter must be an array

main.CRITICAL: Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /vendor/magepow/categories/view/frontend/templates/categories.phtml on line 25 {"exception":"[object] (Exception(code: 0): Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in vendor/magepow/categories/view/frontend/templates/categories.phtml on line 25 at vendor/magento/framework/App/ErrorHandler.php:61)"} []

the line is
<?php if (empty(count($categories))) return; ?>

it should probably be

<?php if (is_array($categories) == false) return; ?>
<?php if (empty(count($categories))) return; ?>

Sorting by position does not give ideal sorting result

The sot by just position does not take into consideration the parent child setup of categories in the positional tree.

For example:

Here category with ID 94 will be positioned before category with ID 71, even though category with ID 94 is way lower (and a child of another parent category.

Ideally the position sorting shoudl consider teh parent to child layout as well.

extended latin alphabet characters not sorted

All characters like Ł should go after L (óęąśźżćń) now it in the end of list so attributes are sorted wrong.

Not translated

https://github.com/magepow/magento-2-categories/blob/master/view/frontend/templates/categories.phtml#L57
hardcodes "show now" in English.

Either that string should be translatable or a string setting in the admin page.
At the very least it should be possible to switch it off.

Placeholder custom in system config not work, always magento placeholder

I change vendor\magepow\categories\Block\Categories.php to add helper image in construct:
...
\Magento\Catalog\Helper\Image $helperImage
...
$this->helperImage = $helperImage;

and I change function getImage to get placeholder success:
$placeholderImageUrl = $this->helperImage->getDefaultPlaceholderUrl('small_image');

File result:

`<?php
/*

• @category: Magepow
• @copyright: Copyright (c) 2014 Magepow (http://www.magepow.com/)
• @Licence: http://www.magepow.com/license-agreement
• @author: MichaelHa
• @create date: 2019-11-29 17:19:50
• @LastEditors: MichaelHa
• @LastEditTime: 2019-12-04 11:04:26
  */

namespace Magepow\Categories\Block;

class Categories extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template
{
const XML_PATH = 'category_page';

public $helper;

public $storeManager;

public $helperImage;

public $coreRegistry;

public $categoryFactory;

public $catalogHelperOutput;

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface $storeManager,
    \Magento\Framework\Registry $coreRegistry,
    \Magento\Catalog\Model\CategoryFactory $categoryFactory,
    \Magento\Catalog\Helper\Output $catalogHelperOutput,
    \Magento\Catalog\Helper\Image $helperImage,
    \Magepow\Categories\Helper\Data $helper,
    \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context,
    array $data = []
) {    
    $this->storeManager        = $storeManager;
    $this->coreRegistry        = $coreRegistry;
    $this->categoryFactory     = $categoryFactory;
    $this->catalogHelperOutput = $catalogHelperOutput;
    $this->helperImage  = $helperImage;
    $this->helper = $helper;
    parent::__construct($context, $data);
}

public function getLayout() 
{
    return $this->helper->getConfig(self::XML_PATH . '/layout');
}

public function getHeading() 
{
    return $this->helper->getConfig(self::XML_PATH . '/heading');
}    

public function isShowDescription() 
{
    return $this->helper->getConfig(self::XML_PATH . '/description');
}    

public function getSortAttribute() 
{
    return $this->helper->getConfig(self::XML_PATH . '/sort_attribute');
} 

public function getExcludeCategory()
{
    return $this->helper->getConfig(self::XML_PATH . '/exclude_category');
}

public function getCategories()
{

    $category = $this->coreRegistry->registry('current_category');
    if(!$category) return;

    $categoryId = $category->getId();

    if ($this->isExcluded($categoryId)) return;

    $sortAttribute = $this->getSortAttribute();  
    $model = $this->categoryFactory->create();
    $categories = $model->getCollection()
    ->addAttributeToSelect(['name', 'url_key', 'url_path', 'image','description'])
    // ->addAttributeToFilter('include_in_menu', 1)
    ->addAttributeToFilter('parent_id', $categoryId)
    ->addAttributeToSort($sortAttribute)
    ->addIsActiveFilter();

    return $categories;
}

public function getDescription($category)
{
    $description = $category->getDescription();
    if ($description) {
        $categoryDescription = $this->catalogHelperOutput
        ->categoryAttribute($category, $description, 'description');
    } else {
        $categoryDescription = '';
    }
    return trim($categoryDescription);
}

public function getImage($category)
{
	$placeholderImageUrl = $this->helperImage->getDefaultPlaceholderUrl('small_image');
    $image = $category->getImage();
    if ($image != null) {
        $url = $this->getImageUrl($image);
    } else {
        $url = $placeholderImageUrl;
    }  
    return $url;
}

public function getImageUrl($image)
{
    $url = false;  
    if ($image) {
        if (substr($image, 0, 1) === '/') {
            $url = $this->storeManager->getStore()->getBaseUrl(
                \Magento\Framework\UrlInterface::URL_TYPE_WEB
            ) . ltrim($image, '/');
        } else {
            $url = $this->storeManager->getStore()->getBaseUrl(
                \Magento\Framework\UrlInterface::URL_TYPE_MEDIA
            ) . 'catalog/category/' . $image;
        }
    } 
    return $url;
}

public function isExcluded($id)
{
    $excluded = explode(',', $this->getExcludeCategory());
    if (!$excluded) return;
    return in_array($id, $excluded);
}

}`

Categories Layout Grid not working only list

I installed via composer and is working except the Categories Layout: Grid option. It lists all the categories fine tho. Is there anything specific i need to set in the category page under Design tab? I have tried altering the layout between 1, 2 & 3 column's but no difference still just lists with a bullet point.

Error compatible PHP 8.2

Deprecated Functionality: Creation of dynamic property Magepow\Categories\Setup\InstallData::$categorySetupFactory is deprecated
app/code/Magepow/Categories/Setup/InstallData.php on line 14

no adminhtml layout code found in view

no adminhtml code found in view folder

category views problem after magento 2.4.4 update

magento installation 2.4.4
php 7.4
apache 2

dynamics:
updated with composer

problem:
if I enter any category, all the first and second level categories are displayed.

to see the problem reacars at the following address:
problema image categories

Bloch widget for change position in home page

Hello everybody

Is it possible to load the module on the home page from the static block?
exemple
{{block class="Magepow\Categoryes\Block\Widget" }}

if so what is the code?

thank you

composer install fails - propose other method - zip?

Struggling to get this installed via composer due to the current errors -

Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Package operations: 1 install, 0 updates, 0 removals
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mmap() failed cannot allocate memory

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