Creating and Editing Topics in nopCommerce

Topics play varying roles in the nopCommerce ecosystem. A clean install contains basic topics that are commonly used for a store website. Some of these topics are actually pages that display on the site or they house a common block of content used on a template such as “HomePageText” which renders on a section of the home page.

How to Add or Edit Topics

Access existing topics by going to Content management>Topics(pages) in the main menu of the admin area. From there you can use the search functionality to locate the topic if you have many topics on your site. Topics used for static pages on your site should be named appropriately allowing you to locate those pages easily. For topics used to place content on a specific page of your site, you may need to look for the page name to be included along with a specification of where the content goes on the page(ie, HomePageBottom) or what content exists within the topic(ie, HomePageWelcome).

1. Click the Edit button to the right for the topic you wish to edit or click Add new on the right to create a new topic.
2. Toggle the advanced features if you need to edit more than the content and whether the topic is published or where it should be included (top menu, footer columns)
3. Body - Use the editor to change the content of the topic. The editor has similar functionality to most word processing software with a few additional features:
   • Insert/Edit Hyperlink
   • Insert/Edit Image
4. Published - Enable/disable to control whether the topic is visible in your store
5. Include in top menu - Check to include topic in top menu.
6. Include in footer (columns 1-3) - Enable to display the topic as a link in the footer column specified
7. Include in sitemap - Check box to ensure the topic is listed in your site’s sitemap. The sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. In nopCommerce the sitemap is generated automatically if you have it enabled in your store (Located in Configuration>Settings).
8. Password protected - Enable to make a topic accessible only with a password
9. Customer roles - Define what roles can view the topic
10. Limited to stores - Used with multi-stores it allows you to specify which stores a topic is limited to
11. Accessible when store closed - Check to allow customers to view this topic details page when the store is closed.
12. Display order - Used to determine the order for topics set to display in the top menu or footer columns
13. System name - Displayed in the list of topics. Also used to reference topics within templates so that the content displays when the page is rendered. Note: In these instances, if that name is modified, it would no longer display on the template.
14. Search engine friendly page name - Set a search engine friendly page name e.g. 'some-topic-name' to make your page URL 'http://www.yourStore.com/some-topic-name'. Leave empty to generate it automatically based on the title of the topic.
15. Meta title - Use to override the page title. The default is the name of the topic.
16. Meta keywords - Adds the meta tag for keywords to your page header
17. Meta description - Adds the meta description for keywords to your page header

More NopCommerce Learning Opportunities You can also view a video tutorial for editing topics as well as other NOP tutorials in our nopCommerce learning center. Watch the Video

If you'd like topic content added to your home page to create a new block of content, don't hesitate to reach out to our support team to have those changes implemented on your site's theme.