4.1 Layout Demo

You could see the appearance of SM Categories module as following:

4.2 How to show “SM Categories” module?

• If you want to display this module on any page that you want, please go to Content -> Page -> Edit Home page item ->Tab Content, add this code to a position:

{{block class="Sm\Categories\Block\Categories" name="categories" as="categories" template="Sm_Categories::default.phtml" /}}

4.3 Module Configuration

Note: We used the images of module’s installtion on Magento 2.1.x to illustrate

In the Administrator Page, navigate to Stores -> Settings -> Configuration and find SM Categories to configure.

Let’s look at the parameter in detail:

General Options

• • Enabled Extensions: Enable or disable the module displaying on Frontend area.
  • Title: Enter the title of the module.

For Example:

Source Options

• • Select Categories: Allow you to select Category
  • Category Limitation: Allow to set category limitation.

4.4 How to override the configuration in backend?

Let’s start override the configuration, go to Content -> Page -> Edit Home page item ->Tab Content

• • How to override “Title” param.
    In tab Content, add this code title_module="Title of module"
    

• • How to override “Select Category” param.
    In tab Content, add this code select_category="21,9,3"
    

• How to override “Category Limitation” param.
  In tab Content, add this code limitation="2" or limitation="3"...