I want to display all categories on home page

[rayinblair]

[FONT="Arial Narrow"]I want to display all categories on home page . Can anybody help me out..[/FONT]

[schoolboy]

In your Admin Panel for your shop:

ADMIN >>> CONFIGURATION >>> LAYOUT SETTINGS... Categories - Always Show on Main Page . . . . . . (set to 1)

[wildwebwest]

Hey Schoolboy. My site is at www.johnglossa.com

My site was showing the 3 top level categories at the top of the home page. I disabled it the other day. Now I cannot get the top level categories to show again.

I did this in Admin, Layout Settings

admin > config > layout settings > Categories - Always Show on Main Page SET TO 1


Do you think by disabling it once that I screwed it up somehow?

Any help would be appreciated. I"m a web designer, so not a noob knucklehead. Used and setup zen cart many times.

thanks!

mary

[flipperry]

I don't know what would make it so that your categories aren't displaying if you set the admin setting to "1" for Categories - Always Show on Main Page....
There is probably a problem with your code.

Look at this file: YOUR_STORE/includes/init_includes/init_category_path.php

Very close to the top of the file (right after the version info and such) is this batch of code:

}
$show_welcome = false;
if (isset($_GET['cPath'])) {
  $cPath = $_GET['cPath'];
} elseif (isset($_GET['products_id']) && !zen_check_url_get_terms()) {
  $cPath = zen_get_product_path($_GET['products_id']);
} else {
  if (SHOW_CATEGORIES_ALWAYS == '1' && !zen_check_url_get_terms()) {
    $show_welcome = true;
    $cPath = (defined('CATEGORIES_START_MAIN') ? CATEGORIES_START_MAIN : '');
  } else {
    $show_welcome = false;
    $cPath = '';
  }
}

This code has not been changed directly (through the code itself), but I have the "Categories - Always Show" setting in my admin set to 0 (hence the "false" settings?). Hope this helps you figure out what's wrong.