Something can't be right with the Magento software. It is such a clunky tool.
- I created a stack of Categories and Subcategories.
- They appeared as Categories on their own and did not show up on the public Home Page
- I was told in an earlier post on this forum that the Categories had to appear under "Default Category (0)"
- After much trial and error trying to find how to get the Categories to be part of Default, I discovered I could drag each Category and drop them in Default Category -- ok...we're getting somewhere now. But wait, it gets more complicated than this
- You can only drag one Category at a time
- Then you need to Telnet into your server and run this from the command line:
> php /home/{myhost}/public_html/bin/magento indexer:reindex - Then, in the Admin Panel backend of Magento, you need to navigate System > Cache Management and click the Flush Magento Cache button in order to get the Category and its subcategory stack to appear on the public Home Page
- Repeat Steps 5-7 for each category
Why do you need to build the system this way?
