How to Create a New Root Category in Magento 2

Magento 2 serves as a platform to businesses from clothing to machinery, beauty products, tutorials, etc. You name a niche and a Magento developer can create a store for you!

Such capabilities come with flexible and customization capability of the CMS.

Today, I’ll talk about one such feature to create a new root category in Magento 2.

Root categories in Magento 2 acts as a container for the main menu in Magento 2.

You can use this solution when you have multiple stores and want to display different categories as a root category in each store. Magento 2 allows you to do so!

Also, if you are carrying out Magento 2 migration owing to the Magento 1 End of Life on June 30, ’20, you will need this solution to add new root category in Magento 2 store.

Note: I highly recommend migrating to Magento 2 for the sake of the store’s security and performance. You can refer the steps to migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2.

Steps to Create a New Root Category in Magento 2:

Step 1: Add a root category

• • Login to admin panel
  • Navigate to Catalog > Categories
  • Click Add Root Category
  • Assign category name.
  • Enable the category and include in menu action.
  • Save the configuration.

Step 2: Add a subcategory of the new root category

• Select the newly created Category.
• With the new Root Category, click Add SubCategory.
• Assign Name. I’ve given Jacket.
• Enable the subcategory and include in menu action.
• Save the configuration.

Step 3: Choose the new root category

• Navigate to Stores > All Stores
• Click Main Website Store

• In the Root Category drop-down menu, select the category you’ve created. In my case, it’s Jacket.
• Click Save Store.
  

That’s it.

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