--- title: Joomla shopping – VirtueMart video tutorial description: Free VirtueMart video tutorial (part 2). Creating a Joomla shopping: creating and configuring categories, adding products, creating product manufacturers canonical_url: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/extensions/joomla-shopping language: en-GB date: 2025-08-24T11:40:26Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/extensions/joomla-shopping. markdown-tokens: 1607 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/extensions/joomla-shopping. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Featured # VirtueMart 4 video tutorial. Joomla shopping (part 2) - Type – free Joomla component for creating online stores. VirtueMart is a free component for the Joomla content management system that allows you to create online stores. It is a fairly flexible tool that provides basic functions for managing product categories, products, orders, manufacturers, and more. ## Video tutorial - Starting the local server and logging into the Joomla admin – 00:01:31. - Template settings – 00:02:19. - Categories – 00:06:44. - Categories sorting – 00:10:50. - Category menu items – 00:11:42. - VirtueMart products – 00:13:53. - Product URL – 00:17:12. - Product availability settings – 00:18:23. - Hide category description – 00:23:38. - Manufacturers – 00:25:27. Better watch video with «1080p HD» quality. This and other video reviews and tutorials can be found on my [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@aleksejs-software-stories "YouTube channel"). **Links from the video:** - [Joomla 4 video tutorials](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/how-to-build-a-website-from-scratch "Joomla tutorial for beginners (part 1). How to build a website from scratch"). - «[VirtueMart 4 video tutorial. Joomla shop (part 1)](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/extensions/virtuemart-joomla-shop "VirtueMart 4 video tutorial. Joomla shop (part 1)")». - «[Video tutorial «Joomla template manager»](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-templates-and-styles-video-tutorial "Video tutorial «Joomla template manager»")». - «[TinyMCE video tutorial. Joomla text editor](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/tinymce-text-editor-tutorial "TinyMCE video tutorial. Joomla text editor")». - «[Joomla menu video tutorial (Com menus). Creation and management](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-menu-tutorial "Joomla menu video tutorial (Com menus). Creation and management")». In the previous video tutorial «[VirtueMart 4 video tutorial. Joomla shop (part 1)](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/extensions/virtuemart-joomla-shop "VirtueMart 4 video tutorial. Joomla shop (part 1)")», we installed local server, Joomla, VirtueMart, Tienda template, and made some basic settings. In this video, we will work with product categories, products, and product manufacturers. ![Joomla shopping on VirtueMart](https://aleksius.com/images/joomla/rasshireniya/joomla-shopping/joomla-shopping.png) Joomla shopping on VirtueMart In the previous video tutorials, we looked at the various [Joomla built-in extensions](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms "Joomla extensions video tutorials"), and also learned how to create a website on [Joomla from scratch](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-tutorials "Joomla tutorials"). **The previously recorded video tutorials for Joomla 4 are almost completely relevant for the current version of Joomla 5.3. The information and video tutorial from this article remain relevant for Joomla 4 as well. At least this is true on August 15, 2025.** Video tutorial recording date – August 15, 2025. Software from video tutorial – Joomla 5.3.2, VirtueMart 4.4.10.11120, XAMPP 8.2.12. In the next video tutorial, we will continue creating a [Joomla shopping on VirtueMart](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/extensions/joomla-store "VirtueMart 4 video tutorial. Joomla store (part 3)"). If you have any questions, write them in the comments | Article author – Aleksej Khoroshevskij | |---| | [![Aleksej Khoroshevskij](https://aleksius.com/images/sluzhebnye/khoroshevskij-aleksej.jpg "Aleksej Khoroshevskij")](https://aleksius.com/en/aleksej-khoroshevskij "Aleksej Khoroshevskij") Ph.D., lecturer at [Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics](https://nure.ua/en/staff/alexey-khoroshevsky "Nure.ua"), web developer, and SEO specialist with over 15 years of experience. Expert in website creation using Joomla and WebSite X5. Author of scientific publications, video courses, and educational content on web development and SEO. 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