Creating New Product Categories in Ubercart

Dealing with Drupal's menu and taxonomy system can be daunting at first. Don't let this make you think you can't manage your own website or e-store. Just follow this guide and the step by step instructions will have you managing your product catalog in no time.

First, let's get to the taxonomy area of your site. Sign in to your site as an administrator and on the top toolbar click the structure button. The page should look something like this (without my scribbling):

After selecting Taxonomy, you will have several choices of which "taxonomy" you would like to edit. Your screen will look something like this, there could be more items on there, but you are focused on the Catalog vocabulary.

You want to click on the button that says "list terms" under the Catalog vocabulary. 

This brings up an area where you are able to rearrange the order of your categories by dragging and dropping. You can also edit any category by clicking on the edit button associated with that category. For now, let's focus on how to add a category. Editing categories pretty much goes by the same process, except there is already some data filled in to the forms.

Click "Add Item" on this screen:

This will bring up the screen to add new items to the vocabulary. Simply fill out the information and click save.

• Name - The name of the category
• Description - A brief description of the category
• Text Format - The input method for your description. Pick the highest from the following: "Full HTML", "Filtered HTML", "Plain Text"
• Image - An image to associate with the category. 
• Relation - If this is a subcategory, you can select the category's parent in here. Hold the shift key to select multiple parents. You can also change the "weight" of the category (where it appears in lists), but it is much easier to do this in the vocabulary view where you can just drag and drop.
• URL Alias - If you want to specify an alternative name for the category that gets displayed in the web address. For example, instead of example.com/taxonomy/catalog/23 or something like that you can make it say example.com/category-name. It is much easier to remember.

After filling this out, click "Save" and now you have a new category you can use when adding products.