If you have a web site that uses drop menus for the navigation system, you may find that the indexing of your web site has a bit to be desired. Recently, on a web site using the drop menu system, I took advantage of using a second navigation menu at the bottom of the site by moving the nav cat tabs to the tpl_footer.php file.

To make the switch, open:

includes/templates/Your_Template/common/tpl_header.php and look for:

<!–bof-optional categories tabs navigation display–>

<?php get_template_dir(’tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php’,DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,’templates’). ‘/tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php’); ?>

<!–eof-optional categories tabs navigation display–>

Copy the code, delete it and open:
includes/templates/Your_Template/common/tpl_footer.php

Paste your copied code into the footer file in the appropriate postition.

Upload both of the edited files and turn on your Nav Cat Tabs in the Zen Cart admin by going to:

Configuration -> Layout Settings -> Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF and turn the Nav Cat Tabs on.

Go to your web site and see your category links in the footer of each page. Now search engines have easy to read text links for your categories.

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