Categories Dressing

You don't want to change the cPath except by properly moving categories in admin, if that is an appropriate thing to do. Why do you want to change cPaths?

How are your categories displaying now, alphabetically?

Yes it is currently displaying alphabetically. I've moved the site to a personal url online and will pm you the link. I've changed the sort order for a few categories but they are not being picked up.

Okay, what are the sort orders for the categories currently under the "Test 3" heading?
I see that the demo categories all come below the real categories you have made, which indicates that the new ones don't have sort orders (or their orders are all 0 or small).

The cPath or category id is not related to the sort order, if you were thinking of influencing it that way. The "Sort Order" field is at the very bottom of the product editing page.

You are correct. I'm changing the sort order and am able to create/move categories in the group that I would like them to display under. How would you move a group over another? For example, if you review the site now, I'd like the second group to be displayed before the first group.

By far the best way would be to redo the sort orders of one group so they all come before/after the other group, as appropriate. Any other solution would be picky and fragile.

Thank you for the great mod!

I have a question. How come when I select a 2nd or 3rd subcat from my drop down menu, nothing displays in my sidebox?

I played around with the numbers here:

//define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '1|0|1');//show only active cats, to first subcat level

in categories_dressing_defines.php. It works fine when 1st subcat is selected from the drop down menu. But when 2nd/3rd subcat is selected, the sidebox disappears.

Please help!!!

define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '1|0|1');//show only active cats, to first subcat level

The third number in this define is for the lowest subcat level. If you want to show all levels of subcats, just set it to a large number like 9. That will let any plausible subcat levels show without bothering further.


If you have changed that number without effect, or if the whole sidebox actually disappears, you have some larger coding error that I can't diagnose from the information you have given.

Hi Glen,
The entire sidebox does not disappear. The box with
* Specials ...
* New Products ...
Featured Heading
* Featured Products ...
* All Products ...
is still there.

I tried many combos in this line of code
define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '1|0|1');
I can get the top cat to display in the sidebox when I select a top cat from the horizontal dropdown menu. But when I select a subcat, the sidebox that displays the cats disappears.

This is want: when I select Topcat->1st subcat->2nd subcat ... I want the same tree in the sidebox. So far all I can get is that when Top Cat is selected, Top Cat & 1st subcat appears in the sidebox. But when 1st or 2nd subcat is selected, the cat tree in the sidebox disappears.

I'm not sure if what I said makes any sense.

gjh42,
when will you release the new version?