It would appear that current versions of Magento do not display the category on hover. Any other suggestions on how to get the category number?

Great work!

It's not pretty but it works:

Catalog > Manage Categories

Then view the source (Firefox Ctrl+U). Search for "tree.loadTree". Now you will see a JSON object of all of the categories. Look for the title of your category after {"text": The category id follows it after "id":

Yeah, not fun.

You just saved me thousands of hours.
Thank you so much Steve!!!

Great post many thanks! One more questions:

Any ideas on how to include a left hand category bar on the front page, for use as the home page navigation bar?

Thanks in advance

nice tutorial. finding answers to simple things like this can be a challenge. thanks for the insightful video

Thank you so much for this Steve - I would never have figured this on my own - glad to see that the Category ID is now available on the Category General Info page.

Hello, This is really great, but I have one question if you could please answer it will be great.
On my page there is a sentence "There are no products matching the selection." insted of new product, I thing that the product is not add to WEB site, but I don't know why. Maybe someone have/had the same situation?

I'm glad this helped everyone. I will continue tinkering with Magento this month. I got called off to work on X-Cart for a while, and am looking forward to getting back to work on magento

thanks Steve. I'm finding magento really confusing and not really that intuitive. I can't even get categories to show up on the home page at the moment (There are no products matching the selection error)

Any tips to troubleshoot?

Magento, confusing? Magento is practically retarded. I've tried this, and still I get nothing on my front page. You would think that a team who could develop something like Magento would also be capable of making it more intuitive.

Finally a very good and simple tutorial
thanks a lot!!

Wow, thank you for the video. I was going in circles trying to figure out how to get this to display products on the store front. Awesome!

Excelletai!!!!! Where are you man, you have been out of action for a while.

MORE TUTORIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great JOB

Steve - thanks for laying this out.
I was shocked to see that you have to add the smarty and template code to have the prodcut show up.
Is it just me, or shouldn't there be a checkbox group where I can say :
Display this product on these pages"
during the Add or Edit product stage.
What's the point of a CMS if I have to teach my client how to dump in code every time he adds or wants to change a new product ? Craziness.
I had VERY high expectations for Magento replacing the very outdated OSCommerce site he has been running - now I'm not so sure.
Any comment ?
Thanks again for the tutorial.

hi,

when i do the same steps it says
"There are no products matching the selection."
actually i have put in the product in a sub catagory.....
can u please tell me what is the problem

Thanks,

The latest version of Megento tells you the category id next to the title of the category in the Manage Categories section of the dashboard btw.

Thanks, excellent video

Thanks Steve for a great tutorial.

I am new to Magento, but this tutorial helped me on the first try! I wanted to display the best selling items on the homepage, so what I did is open a new category called best sellers. In it I added a few items. I copied the ID for that new category and it worked! Now is going to be easy to change them every now and then.

Brother, you have found a calling, thank you, and do more please!