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This area checks the category pages and brand pages of your shop: texts, SEO fields, images, structure and links. You can edit the text and the SEO fields of a page directly, with a preview and undo. With templates you fill SEO titles and SEO descriptions for many pages at once.

Where to find it

Open Products > Categories. The area has these tabs:

What you need

• View category and brand pages to open the area.
• Run the page scan to start a scan yourself.
• Edit page texts and SEO fields to edit a single page, undo changes and create tasks.
• Templates and bulk edit of SEO texts to maintain templates and apply them to many pages.
• Approve large bulk edits to approve bulk edits that are above the limit.
• Page scan settings for the tab Settings.
• A connected shop that plinth may write to, see Onboarding wizard. Without write access you can check pages but not save changes.

No AI key is needed for this area. Permissions are assigned in Access.

How do I check the pages?

1. Open Products > Categories.
2. Click Run scan. The message "Scan started. The result will appear in a moment." appears. The scan changes nothing in the shop.
3. The header shows the time of the last scan and how many issues were found on how many pages.

After the first scan, the scan runs every night. Under Scan history at the bottom you see the past scans.

Read the result

• The tiles at the top count the pages: Pages, With issues, Urgent, Medium and OK. There is also one tile per group of checks: Text, SEO, Image, Structure, Links and, where they apply, Promotions and Brand. Click a tile to filter the list.
• Open All checks to see every check with a short explanation and the number of pages. Click a check to filter the list by it.
• Use the search field to find a page by name or path.
• The columns Text, SEO title and SEO desc. show the length in characters. Hover a number to see the recommended length.
• The column Issues lists the issues of the page. Hover an issue for the explanation.

A page marked inactive is not active in the shop. A page marked hidden is active but not shown in the menu.

How do I edit the text and SEO fields of a page?

You need Edit page texts and SEO fields.

1. In the tab Categories or Brand pages, click the name of the page.
2. Edit the Description. The buttons above the text set Bold, Italic, Heading, Paragraph, List and Numbered.
3. Edit the SEO title and the SEO description. The counter below each field shows the length and the recommended maximum.
4. Check Search preview. It shows roughly how the page appears in a search engine.
5. Click Preview. The card Preview of the change shows Before and After. Nothing is saved yet.
6. Click Save. The message "Saved. You can undo this under "Changes"." appears.

Note: Only paragraphs, lists, bold, italic and one heading level are allowed in the text. If the existing text contains other elements, a warning appears above the form. On save they are removed or converted. Images inside the text are lost.

Note: If your role needs approval for text changes, the message "Submitted for approval. Nothing is changed until a team lead approves." appears instead. See Approvals.

Start from the manufacturer text

On a brand page with a manufacturer text, the toolbar has a button that takes over this text as a starting point. Rewrite the text afterwards; a copied manufacturer text is reported as the issue Manufacturer text copied.

How do I fill SEO texts for many pages at once?

You need Templates and bulk edit of SEO texts.

Create a template

1. Open the tab Templates.
2. Under New template, enter a Name.
3. Choose Applies to (Categories or Brand pages) and the Field (SEO title or SEO description).
4. Enter the Template. Use the variables listed at the top of the page, in curly brackets, for example the name of the page or the name of the shop. Texts that are too long are cut at a word boundary.
5. Optional: set a Maximum length, and switch on Only fill empty fields.
6. Click Save template. The table shows an example of the result and its length.

Apply a template

1. Open the tab Bulk edit, or click Apply next to a template.
2. Choose the Template.
3. Under Which pages, choose Only pages where the field is empty or All pages (existing texts are overwritten).
4. Click Preview. The table shows every page with Before and After. Nothing is written yet.
5. Click Change pages (…). The button shows the number of pages.

After the change you are taken to the tab Changes. The message "Pages changed: …" confirms the number.

Warning: All pages (existing texts are overwritten) replaces texts that people have written by hand. Check the preview carefully.

Approval for large bulk edits

If the bulk edit changes more pages than the limit in the settings, a second person must approve it. The preview shows a warning, and after you click Change pages (…) the message says that the pages are waiting for approval. A person with Approve large bulk edits approves the change under Jobs. Until then nothing is changed.

How do I undo a change?

1. Open the tab Changes. The list shows when, which page, who, the type and the fields.
2. Click Undo in the row of the change. The message "Pages reverted: …" appears.

You also find Undo on the page itself under Recent changes to this page.

The type in the tool means the change was made in plinth. outside the tool means the nightly scan noticed a change that was made somewhere else; the person is unknown and there is no undo.

How do I find and fix problem links?

1. Open Products > Categories and click the tile Links, or open the tab Shopping Experiences.
2. The issues show which kind of link is affected:

3. Hover the issue to see where the link is and where it points.
4. For a link in the description of a category, open the page and correct the text.
5. For a link in a layout, correct it in the Shopware administration with the link picker of the editor. Pages in the tab Shopping Experiences cannot be opened in plinth.
6. Run the scan again to check the result.

How do I hand pages over as a task?

You need Edit page texts and SEO fields.

1. Filter the list until it shows the pages you want to hand over.
2. Click As task.
3. In the dialog Task for the filtered pages, enter a Title and, if you like, a Description.
4. Choose Assign to: Myself, A role or Nobody. For a role, choose the Role.
5. Optional: set a Due date and a Priority.
6. Click Create task.

The task appears in the tasks of Quality.

How do I change the settings?

You need Page scan settings. Open the tab Settings.

Click Save. The message "Settings saved." appears.

Common errors and fixes

See also

• Quality: checks for products, and the tasks
• Brands: manufacturers and their data
• Storefront: checks the public shop pages from outside
• Approvals: when a change needs approval
• Jobs: running and finished changes