Quote Originally Posted by picaflor-azul View Post
I am not exactly sure what you are asking. Do you want to to move the categories to the bottom of the tpl_mega_menu.php file?

Thanks,

Anne
Oh, light switch! While thinking about how I go about hacking Zen's php, I came up with what should have been obvious to me much earlier. If I transfer Apple Zen's menu's CSS naming convention to tpl_mega_menu.php, this might regain me my desired source code order. I'll report later.

After finishing typing out what is below, I came up with the idea above, so the rest of this is, well, I wrote it, so I'll just leave it.

No, it won't matter where categories appears in tpl_mega_menu.php unless I can figure out how to ensure where tpl_mega_menu.php's HTML output ends up when you view a page's source code. You know, right click a web page and select View Page Source (or the equivalent). For this, the source, is what googlebot scans. So it is crucial to SEO to ensure the unique content of a page appears toward the top rather than be obliterated by a list of hundreds of categories, which is what is now happening in my case from the switch of using jettrue's Apple Zen template menu.

FWIW, my understanding in rearranging the order of where content appears in the HTML source code is that it can be done through CSS or javascript, but I've no good idea how it is done. I read somewhere via Google search that the issue with using CSS is it doesn't always work well across all browsers, but I am not sure why that matters if the concern is with a bot, so long as the bot sees the order you desire. The issue with javascript is... actually, I don't know. Because for me is when I find the time to learn one iota of javascript is when I learn the whole shebang. It's a long overdue endeavour. As is CSS. But I can manage to cobble together enough on CSS to edit it or view another's css to figure out how to do something. Sometimes. I'm much better applying the same technique to PHP. Yet another language I should take the time to learn.

If this is not your bailiwick, I understand. I'll figure it out soon enough.