Brand pages create an ordinary category for every brand (or other attribute value) with a logo, a short description and all products of that brand. The first setup is done by the wizard: it picks the attribute, prepares the Brands category, shows a preview and only then creates the pages and places the products.
Before you start
- a product attribute with the brands, of type dropdown or multiple select (for example manufacturer or brand), with options,
- products that have the brand filled in,
- Magento cron running, because new brands and changes are also synced every hour.
1. Choose the attribute
Catalog › Brands › Brands
While the module has no rule yet, the brand grid shows the button Run the wizard. The wizard shows a card per attribute with the number of options and products. Attributes with the code manufacturer, brand, znamka or proizvajalec are marked Suggested. Text attributes and attributes without options are shown but cannot be chosen. If the module found rules from version 1.x, you can import them here with Import lines.
2. Choose where the pages go
Create the category "Brands" (default) prepares a category under the root category with the display mode Static block only; its content is the brand list. If a category with this name exists, it is used. The name per store view can be set in the module settings beforehand.
Choose an existing parent category if you want the brand pages elsewhere in the tree.
Switches: Create categories automatically (new brands get a page by themselves), Create a category only when the brand has at least 1 product and Disable automatic categories without products. With several root categories the wizard offers a Brands category in each.
3. Check the preview and create
The preview is a dry run: nothing is saved. It shows the number of brands with products, new and existing categories, products that will be placed and URL key collisions. For each collision you choose a solution: an existing category, a key with a suffix (for example puma-brand) or skipping the brand. The module never solves a collision quietly with a "-1" suffix.
The button Create and place starts the work in steps with a progress bar. On our demo store 19 brands and 2,047 products took 14 seconds. The result stays in Catalog › Brands › Sync log.
What is created
- a Brands category with the list of all brands (search, letters, featured brands),
- under it a category for every brand with products, with the name and URL key per store view,
- on the product page the logo and the link "All products of ...".
The categories are ordinary Magento categories: you edit them in Catalog › Categories, where you add a long description, FAQ, a banner image and meta data.