Store Decoration in OpenCart: Adding products to a category

We have created a new category. Now, we will upload some products in that category. We will use the administration panel for this purpose.

1.  Getting started

In this last recipe of this chapter, we need to log in as admin with our stored username and password.

2.  How to do it

We will go to the Catalog | Products section. This will show the already available products on our store. We will see the following window:

Here, we can filter our products with product name, quantity, status, model attributes, and so on. See the option:

We also have Edit beside every product on the list. We can insert a new product. Also, we can make a copy of the existing products with the Copy button. By clicking Insert, we will be shown the following window:

Let’s discuss the fields:

  • Product Name: We will set our product name here. For example, we will set aaa. We can edit it at a later stage.
  • Meta Tag Description: We will set some Meta tag description for our product. This will be helpful for our SEO. We will focus on appropriate keywords for writing this field. Also, try to write as many keywords as possible in this field.
  • Description: We can write a description for our products. We have different styling properties available here.
  • Product Tags: We can write comma-separated tags here for our products. For example, we will write sport.

Now, we will go to the Data section. It contains some important information about our products. Here, we have product model number, image upload options, SKU, product available date, Tax class, and so on.

Under the Links section, we can choose the manufactures, the category under which it will be listed, product download, and also, related products.

In the Option section, we can add different features for our product. Click the Add Option button to create new features.

We can add different discount values to our products. We can apply it to a select customer group and select when this discount will be available.

Like Discount, we can add Special price to our product. We will select a specific customer group for our product.

And in the Image section, we can upload an additional product image also. By clicking on the image, we can edit it.

We will save our product settings. So, our product has been uploaded and we can view it in our store front.

Source: Hasan Tahsin (2011), OpenCart 1.4 Template Design Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

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