After you have managed a Category or created a new Category page (from How to Manage Categories / How to Create a Category Page), you can now customize it by adding Widgets. 


1. Go to CMS à Widgets. 


2. Select the Widget you want to appear on the Category Page. 

    In this case, it will be “Test Widget” (Widget ID 44). 

3. Under the Layout Updates section, click on the Add Layout Update button.

4. From the Display On drop-down menu, select “Anchor Categories”.

5. Once this is selected, you will see a new section added below. 

6.  Check the “Specific Categories” box under the Categories section. 

7. Click . Then select the Categories the widget will be associated with.


8. Select the area in which the Widget will appear on the web site Page from the Block Reference drop-down menu.
    In this specific case, the Block Reference “Category page – introduction area” was chosen. 

FYI: If you want to connect more Widgets to the Category page, repeat the above steps.

In this case, we will choose “Test Widget2”:


We will then choose “Category page – benefits area” from the Block Reference drop-down menu:


9. Click on the Save Category button in the top-right corner. 





Web site view (including Widgets):




Notice the difference between the location of the Widgets (Category page – introduction area compared to Category page – benefits area) in the Website view (including Widgets).