Catalog, media and content settings
Three settings pages decide how the catalog looks and behaves in the storefront: Catalog (what product and category pages show, search, reviews, sorting), Media (image sizes and allowed files) and Content (whether the blog, news and knowledgebase are switched on). None of them changes your products - they change how products and content are presented.
Where to find it
All three are under Settings: Settings → Catalog, Settings → Media and Settings → Content. On a multi-store installation, choose the store in Multi-store configuration for at the top of the page first.
Catalog settings
The page has seven tabs: General, Performance, Product reviews, Search, Compare products, Sharing and Sort options. The most used settings:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Allow viewing of unpublished product details page / Discontinued message for unpublished products | Whether an unpublished product's URL still opens (useful to keep search engine traffic) and whether it then says the product is discontinued. |
| Show SKU on product details page, Show manufacturer part number, Show GTIN | Which identifiers appear on the product page. |
| Show "free shipping" icon | Marks products that ship free. |
| Allow product sorting, Allow view mode changing, Default view mode (grid or list) | Controls on category, brand and collection listings. |
| Default page size, Default page size options (3,6,9) comma separated | How many products a listing shows per page and which alternatives the customer can pick. |
| Include products from subcategories | A parent category also lists the products of its subcategories. |
| Category breadcrumb enabled, Show second picture on hover on catalog pages | Navigation and listing presentation. |
| 'Recently viewed products' enabled, 'New products' page enabled, Show best sellers on home page, 'Products also purchased' enabled | Merchandising blocks and how many items each shows. |
| Product reviews must be approved, Allow anonymous users to write product reviews, Product review possible only after purchasing product | Review moderation (tab Product reviews). Approve reviews under Catalog → Product reviews. |
| Search page. Products per page, Search autocomplete enabled, Search term minimum length, Search by SKU, Search by Description | Storefront search behaviour (tab Search). |
| Show a share button, Share button code | Social sharing on the product page (tab Sharing). |
| Sort options grid | Enable, disable and reorder the sort choices customers see (position, name, price, newest…) (tab Sort options). |
Performance tab
The Ignore … (sitewide) switches let GrandNode skip work on every product page and listing when you do not use a feature: if you have no discounts, Ignore discounts (sitewide) saves a lookup per price; if you never schedule availability dates, leave Ignore "filtering start and end date available products" (sitewide) on. Switch the matching option off before you start using the feature, otherwise it will seem not to work. Customers have independent product price enables per-customer prices set on the customer record.
Media settings
Every size is the longest edge, in pixels, of the image GrandNode generates for that place: Product thumbnail image size (catalog), Product detail image size, Category thumbnail image size, Cart/Wishlist thumbnail image size and so on. Thumbnails are generated on first request and cached, so changing a size takes effect for new requests.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Maximum image size | Uploaded pictures larger than this are scaled down on upload. |
| Image quality | Compression quality (0-100) of generated images. |
| Default picture zoom enabled | Zoom on the product picture. |
| Allowed file types | Extensions allowed for uploads through the file manager and download fields. |
| File manager - enabled commands / disabled UI commands | What staff can do in the built-in file manager used by the HTML editor. |
Whether pictures are stored in the database or on disk is a system-wide choice made under System settings.
Content settings
Three tabs, each with an on/off switch for the feature and a few options:
- Blog - Blog enabled, Posts page size, comments from guests, notification about new comments, showing the latest posts on the home page and in search autocomplete.
- News - News enabled, archive page size, comments and home page block.
- Knowledgebase - Knowledge base enabled and comment options.
Writing posts, news and articles is covered in Content.
Tips and common mistakes
- After changing image sizes, check a category page and a product page on a phone as well - themes scale images with CSS, but a too-small thumbnail looks blurred.
- Turning off Blog enabled also removes the blog link from the top menu; the Display "Blog" switch in General settings only matters while the blog is enabled.
- Catalog settings are one settings group: saving them for one store copies every catalog setting for that store. See Stores and multi-store.
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