# How to Create Categories in The Bagisto2.2.0

The category is a structure of your catalog. By creating a category, customers can easily find the specific product amongst the lot on your e-commerce website. It is used for making the hierarchical arrangement of your website. Here we have listed down steps to create a new category and root category in Bagisto.

Bagisto comes with a default root category, i.e., Root, but you can also create your root category. The Root Category is not visible on the front end because it acts as a container to contain the categories to be displayed on the website.

# Steps to Create a New Category in Bagisto 2.2.0

  1. Click on Catalog >> Categories >> Create Category as shown in the below image.

    Create Category

  2. Enter the general values like name, position, and description, and add images.

  3. Display Mode - Display mode is about which content detail is visible on the category page. There are three options:

    • Product and Description

    • Product

    • Description

    • Product and Description: When you set the display mode to "Product and Description," then the product and description about the category both will be visible on the front end as shown below image.

    • Description: When you set the display mode to "Description," then only the category description will be visible on the front end.

    • Product: When you set the display mode to "Product," the product will be visible on the front end.

      Edit Category

  4. Save the category, and a new category is created by the name of Electronic Items as shown in the below image.

    Category Grid

  5. Now check the product edit page while creating a product, and you will be able to see our new category right there.

    Product Page

# Category on Front-End

By following the above steps, you can easily create a new category.

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