Recommendations, rebuilt around widgets

Recommendations now has its own place in the Catalog menu. Every block of suggested products is a widget: when you create it you choose whether it shows Alternatives — similar items to consider instead — or Pairings — items that go with the one on screen. Each widget has its own editor page and a live preview on any product, so you see the result before you save.

A widget can cover the whole catalog, a category, a filtered set or a single product, and the most specific one always wins. Conditions compare candidates with the product being viewed using AND/OR logic — same line, same color, a different category — and pinned products stay exactly where you put them. On the product page you can see which widget answered, and why.

Merchandising is reorganized around it: Sorting for the order of products in each category, Global rules for pins that apply across every category, and Strategies.