Categorys not working when using extra layer to products page / shop

Site URL: https://www.weemovers.co.uk/book-now

Hi All,

Website https://www.weemovers.co.uk/shopfront

Password Benjibenji123!

FYI currently the book-now page is NOT hidden behind the shopfront page, which is what we want.

WANT UX journey to look like this

• Click book now
• Land on new shopfront https://www.weemovers.co.uk/shopfront
• Choose activity/location
• Land on filtered list by category example www.weemovers.co.uk/book-now/ceilidhs

CURRENT

• Click Book now
• > Lands on this page with heaps of activities www.weemovers.co.uk/book-now

THOUGHT I'D FOUND SOLUTION Created shop landing page so people can choose their location/activity first www.weemovers.co.uk/shopfront

HOWEVER when I put the /book-now page “behind” the shopfront, the categories don’t work! And I get this error message

<squarespace:category /> build error: No template found. SEE IMAGE ATTACHED.

Any help here on what I may be missing in the web address?

When you say you put /book-now "behind" the shop front, what specifically do you mean?

It doesn't look like you have either /book-now or /shopfront in the Main Navigation section so presumably they are both in the Not Linked section, and you would just be changing the Book Now button in the header (and the one on the home page) from /book-now to /shopfront? And you wouldn't need to move any pages. You'd just be updating the links. Which definitely shouldn't cause that error!

If I click on /shopfront and choose the Walthamstow classes then it all works and the web address looks correct to me. So I'm trying to understand what is the actual trigger that causes that error. I've seen it before when a blog collection randomly changed into a store collection, but I'd expect you to have more problems if something like that had happened. 

Hi there - thanks for getting in touch!

The pages are both in not linked - correct 🙂 And shopfront is not used publicly yet because of this error. When the pages are in the clickable order we want, the error message appears - I think I need to redo the categories - or redo the hyperlinks per class!

Currently, the journey is:
book now button >> page of all classes

We want
book now button >> the shopfront page >> click category >> land on required filtered category page

@paul2009 or @tuanphan I wonder if you could advise? 🙂

Hi Paul - thanks so much! I actually found this blog post on your website and it solved my problem!

https://sf.digital/squarespace-solutions/squarespace-tips-url-queries?rq=category

My first thought was to get the Universal Filter - but feedback from the owner of Wee Movers when she did a deep dive with her clients and their user journey - people are very particular about the locations over everything else. Having young kids and wanting to do something last minute - all about ease of getting somewhere physically rather than seeing what's further afield.