Hide subcategoris in the center column or main page

[gems14k]

Hi,

When the top category is clicked, the subcategories is dispalyed on the center column. How can I hide it?

http://www.nokoria.com/shopping/inde...index&cPath=65


Thank you,

[DogFusion]

I borrowed this from a contributer here with the screen name of kobra. I haven't used it, but I think it's what you want..

I have tested it for just a couple of days so if you find a glitch please post it here.

This is only for version 1.3.x:

You should be using the override system and have a folder for your template files in the locations where you are altering files.

custom will be the folder for this example:

In your /includes/templates/custom/ folder create another folder named 'templates'

find the tpl_index_categories.php file located in the /includes/templates/template_default/templates/
folder and ftp it to your PC.

Use your editor, notepad or? and open the file and locate this code:

<!-- BOF: Display grid of available sub-categories, if any -->
<?php
/**
 * require the code to display the sub-categories-grid, if any exist
 */
   require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_category_row.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_category_row.php');
?>
<!-- EOF: Display grid of available sub-categories -->

and delete all of this code from the BOF line to and including the EOF line.

Save it and FTP it to your custom folder: /includes/templates/custom/templates/

Now when you select a category, there will be no display of the sub-categories that reside under it. Use this only if you do not want them to display.

[kuroi]

Unusually there's no switch available in Admin to turn these off, so the solution that DogFusion quotes above would an appropriate and ... errr ... comprehensive solution. Personally, I'd just stick a couple of slashes "//" at the beginning of the line starting require($template ...) to comment it out.

If you're don't want to get involved in overrides an alternative would be to add the following to your style sheet

.categoryListBoxContents {display:none}

But please be aware that the subcategory information would still be generated and downloaded to your visitors' browsers, just not displayed when it got there.

[gems14k]

Thanks for the replies. I got it now.

[rlantigua]

Hi,

When the top category is clicked, the subcategories is dispalyed on the center column. How can I hide it?

http://www.nokoria.com/shopping/inde...index&cPath=65


Thank you,

nice looking site...

whould you mind sharing how to do the popUp Images?

[kuroi]

Not really my business to give away gem14k#s secrets, but this one is so widely known that it scarcely counts ... it looks to me as though this site is using the Image Handler add-in available from the downloads section, for which the hover images are actually just a nice side feature - behind the scenes, automatic generation and optimisation of all three image sizes is, for many of us, an even greater benefit.

[rebekah]

Personally, I'd just stick a couple of slashes "//" at the beginning of the line starting require($template ...) to comment it out.

I just wanted to say thanks for this solution. I just added a couple // like Kuroi said and Voila! No more subcategories displaying in the center column when a top level category is clicked.