Category pages

Showcase a single category of your catalog, combining Magento 2 and Algolia features.

Category pages are product listing pages that are already filtered on. The product listing page is a gateway to the product detail page.

With Algolia, you can create category pages for your Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce store with:

• Flexible UI widgets. Algolia’s Magento 2 extension offers Price Range, Sorting, Pagination, Hierarchical menu, and Filters out of the box. You can easily customize the UI.
• Merchandising. Use the Visual and Manual Editor in the Algolia dashboard to pin, hide, boost, bury, and filter products, and create banners.

• Merchandising
• Merchandise category pages

If you plan to use the API directly or build a custom frontend for your Magento 2 store, see category pages for more information.

Implementation steps

There are two steps to implement this solution.

1. Go to Stores > Configuration > Algolia Search > InstantSearch Results Page.

2. Set Replace categories page to Yes.

If you enabled Algolia for category pages, the following changes occur:

• During indexing, Algolia adds a new categoryId attribute for each record. This array contains all category page IDs for each product. You can use this ID to create Rules for category merchandising.
• Algolia powers all category pages using InstantSearch.
• When rendering the category page, you send an empty string as a query and the relevant categories as facetFilters in the frontend code during query time.

Next steps

• Landing Page Builder
• Visual category merchandising
• Merchandising Studio
• Add Dynamic Re-Ranking to category pages
• Personalizing results