This is where you define the subcategories of your store as well as additional related content boxes
| Subcategory Box |
Browsable list of subcategory links with results conforming to your Filter and Node Filter (if specified). For Location: L=Left, R=Right, BT=Body Top, BB=Body Bottom |
Subcategory Box Preference
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This setting controls which Subcategory links are displayed in the Subcategory Box above.
Only Amazon Subcategories:
Only Amazon's default Subcategories will be displayed.
Only Custom Subcategories:
Only your custom Subcategories will be displayed. Note: Requires editing of the cfg.nodes.php file.
Both (Listed Together):
When available, both Amazon and your custom Subcategories will be displayed together. Note: Requires editing of the cfg.nodes.php file.
Both (Either/Or):
If your custom Subcategories are applicable to the current store page, they will be displayed. Otherwise any available Amazon Subcategories will be displayed. Note: Requires editing of the cfg.nodes.php file. |
| Subcategory Columns |
If the Subcategory Box location above is set to BT or BB, this is the number of columns that will be used to display the Subcategories. |
| Related Category Box |
Browsable list of related category links with results conforming to your Filter and Node Filter (if specified). For Location: L=Left, R=Right |
| Related Category Box Nodes |
Controls the number of related category links (nodes) to display. Note: The number of parent links displayed is controlled by the Related Category Box Parent Nodes setting below. |
| Related Category Box Parent |
Controls the number of levels deep of related category link parent nodes to display. Note: These are the links with the up arrows. |
| Tag Cloud Box |
A tag is like a keyword. A tag cloud is a cluster of keywords that are sized based on their popularity/frequency. This can help users find other similar items. Note: To customize the tag appearance edit the CSS aom_tag tags in the /aom/cfg.css.php file |
| Narrow By Brand Box |
Browsable list of Brand links to narrow down category/subcategory listings. Can be used in conjunction with Narrow By Price box. For Location: L=Left, R=Right |
| Narrow By Price Box |
Browsable list of Price links to narrow down category/subcategory listings. Can be used in conjunction with Narrow By Brand box. For Location: L=Left, R=Right |
| New Release Box |
List of newly released item links (US locale only). Note: This list is based on the browse node only... not your Site Default Keyword or category-level keywords though results will conform to your Filter (if specified). For Location: L=Left, R=Right |
| Bestseller Box |
List of bestselling item links (US locale only). Note: This list is based on the browse node only... not your Site Default Keyword or category-level keywords though results will conform to your Filter (if specified). For Location: L=Left, R=Right |
| Information Box |
Create a box with auto-generated links to any URLs you specify whether inside or outside AOM (i.e. About page, Contact page, etc). To not display this box set Display equal to No. For Location: L=Left, R=Right |
Creating Custom Subcategories:
As of v3.0.5 you can setup custom Subcategories for your AOM store
versus using only the default Subcategories returned from Amazon.
And by using the Subcategory Box Preference setting you can control when these custom Subcategory links will be displayed.
NOTE:
The formatting used in versions prior to v3.0.7 is obsolete. You must
update your data according to the new format.
NEW FORMAT:
(everything in CAPS needs customized)
REQUIRED:
$node['YOUR_CATEGORY_ID']['PARENT_NODE']['SUBCATEGORY_NODE']['name'] = "SUBCATEGORY NAME";
OPTIONAL (For keyword filtering):
$node['YOUR_CATEGORY_ID']['PARENT_NODE']['SUBCATEGORY_NODE']['keyword'] = "KEYWORD/PHRASE";
OPTIONAL (For ASIN list):
$node['YOUR_CATEGORY_ID']['PARENT_NODE']['SUBCATEGORY_NODE']['asins'] = "ASINS,SEPARATED,BY,COMMAS";
EXAMPLES:
If you wanted to setup a subcategory directly under Books (AOM Category: mycat1, Node: 1000)
for Harry Potter books (Node: 281785), which would normally only appear further
down in the node tree, you would use:
$node['mycat1']['1000']['281785']['name'] = "Harry Potter";
This means that anytime node 1000 is displayed in your store, Harry Potter
would be displayed as a link in the Subcategory Box.
Now let's say that you want to filter these subcategory results according to a custom keyword (keyword: Rowling)
(a keyword different than the keyword that might be in place at the category level). You would
add this additional line:
$node['mycat1']['1000']['281785']['keyword'] = "Rowling";
But the fun doesn't stop there. Let's say that instead of a browse node/keyword type search
you want to instead have a custom list of ASINs appear within the subcategory. Instead of the
keyword line above, you would add the following line:
$node['mycat1']['1000']['281785']['asins'] = "LIST,THE,ASINS,HERE,SEPARATED,BY,COMMA";
Now let's say you want to setup a couple more custom subcategories underneath the Harry Potter
subcategory you setup above. Let's say they are Authors & Illustrators (Node: 170540) and
Science Fiction & Fantasy (Node: 17466).
You would add them to this file as follows:
$node['mycat1']['281785']['170540']['name'] = "Authors & Illustrators";
$node['mycat1']['281785']['17466']['name'] = "Science Fiction & Fantasy";
Notice how the new parent node is the Harry Potter node we used from above.
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