Hide a Category from Magento Category Menu

This is another simple setting that took me a while to figure in the early day of Magento learning. Today someone asked me how to do it thus I’m entering it to our Magento Journal.

To hide a category menu, simply add a new subcategory (e.g: Sales) with following settings:

Is Active: No
Is Anchor: No

Then proceed to adding a new subcategory (e.g: Overstock Deals ) under the “Sales” category you have just created and set:

Is Active: Yes
Is Anchor: Yes

Now you will be able to hide the “Sales” category from the menu, and access “Overstock Deals” somewhere else such as adding a link (Sales) in the footer.

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