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The Category trees card listing two trees, each with its drag handle, title and slug, beside the Add button

Settings > Categories & Taxonomies

This view can look different dependent on your user role.
See Visibility and permissions for details.

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settings/content/categories-and-taxonomies

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Primary purpose

Build the category trees your online store uses to arrange listings into browsable paths. The Category trees card lists every tree, with its title and slug.
Select Add to create a tree named New category tree and open its editor. Two trees can share a title, so tell them apart by the slug under each title.Read more: Build a category tree
Select a row, or open its menu and select Edit, to open the editor. The editor has a Details card for the title and slug, a Levels card that creates groups from a source, and a Structure card that shows every group.Nothing is stored until you select Save.
Drag a row by its handle to reorder the list. The storefront shows trees in this order, and the first tree wins when a listing sits in more than one.
Open the row menu and select Delete, then confirm with Delete category tree. Only the tree is removed. Your listings and collections are not affected.If the store had picked only that tree, tree navigation switches off, and a Shop link that opened only that tree becomes Link only. Deleting a tree never puts other trees on the store.
A hierarchy of groups. Each group narrows the listings by a collection, an attribute value, a category or a tag, and shows the listings that match every group above it.Read more: Category tree
The fixed classification that says what a listing is. A tree can narrow by a taxonomy category, but the two are separate things.Read more: Category Taxonomy
Flat groups of listings. A tree can use a collection as a group.Read more: Collection

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Visibility and permissions

This page is gated by catalog:tree, in the four operations: , , and . The role editor groups them with collections. View collections grants view, Create and edit collections grants create and manage, and Delete collections grants delete. A user with view access sees the trees without the Add button, the drag handles or the delete action, and the editor opens read-only. All four system roles hold every operation. The Member role has the Settings area hidden by default. For what each operation means and the full role matrix, see Users & Roles.

Build a category tree

Build a tree and show it in your storefront navigation.

Category tree

How a path narrows and why a collection can sit in several trees.

Theme editor: Collection page

The page where you switch tree navigation on.