I have figured out how to get the link buttons for specific categories to appear in the navigation bar in the market 3.51 version. This also creates a separate page for each specified category.

Instructions in previous posts will not help, b/c the file that needs modification has changed since those posts.

I am a complete idiot with this stuff, so hopefully this will help out others who need things spelled out for them.

My product is coffee, so I will use that as my example.

Let's say you want 3 links on the nav bar – one for bold blends, one for mild blends, and one for flavored coffee.

1. Create your category, i.e. bold blends. After the category has been created, and you've added it to your list of categories, go to the list of categories, and move your mouse over the name of your newly created category.  The category id (a number) will show up down in the lower left of your screen. Make note of that.

Find the "gridview.php" file located in the themes>mk3 folder. (For Market versions PRIOR to 4.0, the filename is named "frontdoor.php")  You will make 3 copies of it, one for each blend. For each one, do the following:

2. In line 3, delete "Grid-view Template" and replace with "new name", where the new name is bold blends, for example.  (For Market versions PRIOR to 4.0, you will replace the words "storefront homepage")

(Step #3 is only for Market versions PRIOR to 4.0)

3. In line 12, insert the name of your page (you'll create that page in step 7 – just be sure to use the name you've specified here) between the empty quotes.storefront_pagename = "";
4. On or around line 15, insert the new category id (the number you noted in step 1) between the empty quotes
$specific_category_id = "";

5. Save file as the name of your new category, i.e. "template-bold.php"

6. Upload using an FTP program to your wp_content>themes>mk4 folder.  ("mk3" folder for versions PRIOR to 4.0)

7. Now create a new page, i.e. Bold Blends, and specify "bold blends" from the template drop down box. The name bold blends in the drop down box came from what you did in step 2.

Repeat steps 2 thru 7 for each of the other two blends, so that when finished, there will be the original "gridview.php" file (or "frontdoor.php" for older versions), along with a "template-bold.php", "template-mild.php", and "template-flavored.php" file.

Important: be sure to save the original "gridview.php" (or "frontdoor.php") file. You will still need it!

If anyone sees anything that is not correct here, please feel free to correct.

click on my user name above to see how I've done it in my site.

Ellen

I'll add one little detail to Ellen's handy guide…

You can place your pages in any order you want on the nav bar (except for the Home and View Cart).  On the lower right of each page's Edit Page, under Attributes is a Number.  There you can override the default alphabetical order by typing in a number to determine your page order.

Great looking site, Ellen!  I love the informative approach!

took me two years to get it right. Your site/s look fantastic

Thanks for the great tutorial, this is just what I needed and well explained!

I am having a problem though. Every time I add a new product now, the post shows up on the homepage under News. When I've added products before, they simply went into the category and did not show up as a post…which is how it should be. 

Is there some step I am missing, or is this how it works now after making this modification?

Thank you for any assistance.

-Richard

I think this may have been the problem.

I checked my Parent category there and it appeared to have not been set to the highest "Parent" category. I changed it and then put up a couple test "Add Product" posts and they did not show up on the homepage, they showed just as they should. I will continue adding some products and see if in fact this was the issue.

Thanks so much!

-Richard

Just wanted to take a sec to say that this guide is excellent!  Thank you!!!!!!