{"id":810,"date":"2022-09-07T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/09\/07\/6538359-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-product-categories\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:06","slug":"6538359-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-product-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6538359-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-product-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How to Create Product Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you use <b>Hostinger Website Builder <\/b>to run an online store and want to create product categories, you&rsquo;re in the right place! Follow the steps below &#128071; <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_65ddd26811\">Creating Product Categories<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">1. In your <b><a href=\"\/support\/6538340-website-builder-how-to-access-the-online-store-settings\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">store management area<\/a><\/b>, go to <b>Categories<\/b> and click on <b>Add category<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">2. Insert the category name and click on <b>Assign products<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/09\/0c7a5eaf-bcac-4419-a7ea-2e6ff8ae5f9b.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">3. Select products and click on <b>Save<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/09\/1b2d8746-3bc6-42e3-b751-c5cb53084c3a.jpg\" width=\"550\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">4. Finally, click on <b>Save <\/b>again to save the whole category.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Drag and drop products within a category to change their <b><a href=\"\/support\/6538390-website-builder-how-to-change-the-product-order\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">display order<\/a><\/b> &ndash; this way, products will be displayed in the preferred order on your website, too.<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_edb9e491c0\">Displaying Product Categories on Your Website<\/h2><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">To display product categories on your website, use <b><a href=\"\/support\/6538352-website-builder-product-sections\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">product list sections<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">You may <b>show all product categories on a single page<\/b> by adding multiple product sections to the same page (you can create a dedicated page for that <b><a href=\"\/support\/6456705-website-builder-how-to-add-more-pages-to-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">this way<\/a><\/b>) <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Or you may <b>create dedicated pages<\/b> <b>for each product category<\/b> by <b><a href=\"\/support\/6456705-website-builder-how-to-add-more-pages-to-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">adding more pages<\/a><\/b> to your website and inserting product sections within each of them<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">By default, the product list section displays all products, but you can easily change that in the section settings. Click on <b>Edit section<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/09\/fb72aab9-781f-4428-8884-d20f84208462.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Select which products, by category, to show:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/09\/c3752fd2-805a-4fed-889d-433d61c7586f.jpg\" width=\"500\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">And that&rsquo;s it!<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_a97654e33f\">Finding a Link to a Product Category Page<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you display your product categories on separate pages, you can find their links in the <b>Pages and navigation<\/b> panel on the left. Find your product category page and open its <b>settings<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/09\/20f1abf6-0d2f-4fee-9bf3-93ea76517fb3.jpg\" width=\"450\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">In the <b>General <\/b>tab,<b> <\/b>you will see the suffix of your page URL (you can edit it) and the <b>full URL <\/b>of your category page that you can use:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/09\/b4c12d6c-2874-4a09-82b9-77e66b15f2ad.jpg\" width=\"550\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">You can <b><a href=\"\/support\/6456916-website-builder-how-to-add-a-dropdown-menu\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">add these links to a dropdown<\/a><\/b> in your website&rsquo;s menu bar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to categorize products in your online store created with Hostinger Website Builder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-store"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6538359-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-product-categories\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6538359-hostinger-creador-de-sitios-web-como-crear-categorias-de-productos\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6538359-hostinger-createur-de-sites-web-comment-creer-des-categories-de-produits\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/6538359-hostinger-website-builder-cara-membuat-kategori-produk\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6538359-hostinger-svetainiu-kurimo-irankis-produktu-kategorijos\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6538359-hostinger-criador-de-sites-como-criar-categorias-de-produto\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/6538359-hostinger-----\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}