Comic: Magento categories not showing

Every designer or programmer knows how it feels: you are excited about an idea and in your rush to create a proof of concept, you get stuck on some stupid mistake - you otherwise would have never made. I recently had the exact same experience when creating our free BodyClassPlus module; my categories just wouldn't show up in my top navigation. To protect myself (and you) from this to ever happen again, I've created a small comic.

Remember guys, if your categories aren't showing in your top navigation and you are pulling your hair out again:

• Configure 'maximal depth' in the admin panel
• Set the root category as default category for your store view
• Check if all your categories are children of the root category
• Make sure your child categories are set to 'visible' and 'anchor' (if you want them to show you some products too)
• Try with flat categories turned on or off
• Refresh Caches
• Rebuild Indexes

Erwin Otten

Erwin Otten is a Web Designer / Graphic Designer from Oude Wetering (The Netherlands) and co-founder of Hachmang & Otten. With an education in communication & multimedia design, he is passionate about web design at all levels including (information) architecture, interaction, code, and graphic design. Contact Erwin Otten