So we have gone a long way in customizing our shop and are almost ready to launch our new homepage. However, I’ve run into a problem that I cannot figure out how to solve. Our new homepage will have a homepage gallery across the top and we want to link those images to specifically set up collections, for example, all jewelry. The problem I am having is how to set up the links to those collections properly, as we don’t want them showing up in the main navigation.
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