Difficulties with multstore setup in magento 2

[ngoctrinh]

My main issue is that my catalog navigation does not show up on either of my magento store home pages. Here's the steps I took.

1. create root categories for each store view
2. create website, store and store view, linking to appropriate root category
3. change base urls for each view ie example.com/store1, example.com/store2 where store1 and store2 are my store codes
4. change default home page to a custom cms page
5. create a cms landing page where the customer will choose which store to visit by a url link that matches the url link of the store view.

My landing page with store links seems to work but when I test the links the catalog navigation won't appear. Is there a step that I missed that will make it appear?

[CTucker]

Are you having this problem too or are you just advertising your service? I don't appreciate you copying my post to promote yourself.

[ngoctrinh]

I do not understand what you are saying, I did not copy