search by brand

[lucyc]

I don't see a way to search products by the brand. I need to be able to produce product lists by brand AND by catagory within the brand.

[BRITANUCK]

Hi,

At first i was frustrated that this couldn't be done easily. But there is a way.


Create a new "brand" page for each brand. ie : " By Brand - Cuisinart "

Essentially your creating a single brand page for each company etc.

Then assign all the items that you have by that brand to that page aswell as any other page you have items assigned to.


The trick is to create a pull down option list in each of your page templates with links to your brand page.

Im not sure about how good you are with custom templates but it is quite simple to implement one of these option menus.


here is an example of what the code looks like

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<div class="manufacturer"><form name="manufacturers">
        <select name="company" size="1" onChange="openURL()">
          <option selected value="">Shop by Brand</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          <option value="http://www.yoururl.com/store/brand.html">Brand Name</option>
          </select>
        </form>
  </div>

Hope this helps