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Magento Ecommerce – Create New CMS Page & Add Link in Top Menu Along with Category Links

Magento Ecommerce: Create a new CMS page and have the link to it show up in the menu alongside the category links.

Brick House Bakery project: adding the Survey page link to the top navigation bar, alongside the existing category links.

1. Create a new CMS page, titled Survey, in Magento’s admin (Admin > CMS > Manage Pages > Add New Page)

This is our newly-created page’s path: http://www.brickhousebakery.com/survey

2. Add “Survey” link as a line-item (<li>) to the top menu (root > magento > app > design > frontend > default > default > template > catalog > navigation > top.phtml)

top.phtml file:

<?php
/**
* Magento
*
* NOTICE OF LICENSE
*
* This source file is subject to the Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
* that is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE.txt.
* It is also available through the world-wide-web at this URL:
* http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php
* If you did not receive a copy of the license and are unable to
* obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send an email
* to license@magentocommerce.com so we can send you a copy immediately.
*
* @category   design_default
* @package    Mage
* @copyright  Copyright (c) 2008 Irubin Consulting Inc. DBA Varien (http://www.varien.com)
* @license    http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php  Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
*/
?>
<?php
/**
* Top menu for store
*
* @see Mage_Catalog_Block_Navigation
*/
?>
<div class=”header-nav-container”>
<div class=”header-nav”>
<h4 class=”no-display”><?php echo $this->__(‘Category Navigation:’) ?></h4>
<ul id=”nav”>
<?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
<?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<!– bof – added line-item so survey link will appear in the navigation alongside the existing category links –>
<li><a href=”http://www.brickhousebakery.com/survey/”>Survey</a></li>
<!– eof – added line-item so survey link will appear in the navigation alongside the existing category links –>
</ul>
</div>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml(‘topLeftLinks’) ?>
</div>

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  1. So is there actually a way to do it dynamically or just hard coded?

    Also – I can’t really find the way to display categories in the top navigation in the first place. I’ve been searching internet for hours now and nothing – any tip?

    Thanks

  2. The Survey text link that was added to the navigation bar was hard coding into top.phtml. I don’t know of a way to do it dynamically.

    With regard to displaying category links in the top navigation: do you mean displaying links in the “header-nav,” which contains all of the category titles, or displaying links in the “shop-access” nav, which is part of the “quick-access” section?

    If you mean category links in the “header-nav,” please read: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/welcome_to_the_magento_user_s_guide/chapter_3#creating_categories

    If you mean links in the “shop-access” nav, I haven’t attempted to add any links to that section yet and don’t have any followup information.

    Good luck.

  3. After reading through the Magento User Guide it’s very clear how to create a new category and make the settings so that it will display as a link in the main navigation.

    BUT after making these settings I am still not seeing these categories as links in my navigation.

    After looking at top.phtml file it has the code to pull the categories…

    Any Ideas ? Thanks!

  4. As far as I can tell, Magento requires products to be in a category in order for the category link to appear in the navigation. Please make sure you have products in your categories.

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