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# Window Display: Content & Category Customization

Volusion's **category system** allows you to **organize and display content** products, text and images within your store. You get to choose whats displayed where, by assigning products and other content to categories and subcategories.

**Configuring Global Category Settings**

When you create a category with subcategories, by default, the category page will only show products assigned directly to that category; not those assigned to the subcategories. But, because we like giving you options, **you can opt to configure your store to display products assigned to the subcategories on the main category page**, alongside any main category products.

So, for example, if your online store sells hats, when someone clicks on the hats category, they will also see the subcategories of hats, like baseball caps, fedoras, sun hats, etc. displayed on the main category page. 🎩

Heres how:

1. Go to **Inventory** \> **Categories** in your **Admin Area**
2. Click **View List**
3. Click the **three-dot actions menu icon** and select **Categories & Subcategories Settings**
4. Select **Display Subcategory Products** on **Main Category Page**
5. Click **Save**

**Modifying Individual Categories**

If you have a bunch of categories for which the global treatment described above makes sense, but one more categories that it doesnt, dont sweat it. Heres how you can **make** **exceptions to that global treatment for individual categories**.

1. From the **Categories** **page**, select a **category ID** to modify its settings
2. Under the **Advanced Settings \> Product Display tab**, select **Grid** from the **Product Display Mode menu**
3. Set both **Display Columns** and **Display Rows to zero**
4. Click **Save**

Now that category will only display content assigned to the main category, and not to the subcategories.

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