How to hide categories with no active products?

[wolfderby]

Has anyone had success w/ this one 1.5.5? I can't seem to get it to work for me...

[mikeel100]

Yes it works in 1.5.5d...which mod are you having trouble with? Category Tabs? Subcategories? Sideboxes?

[mikeel100]

Has anyone had success w/ this one 1.5.5? I can't seem to get it to work for me...

Ignore all the code changes except for those on page 5 of this thread...much of it was experimental until we nailed it down.

I just verified that the changes are working in my live shop...1.5.5d. The site map, horizontal menu (css dropdown on my website), and center box subcategories are working. I do not use the sidebox menu, so, let me know if you are using it and I'll open up my test shop to help if needed.

Did you add the option to your admin table layout settings and set it to the correct value?

[wolfderby]

Ignore all the code changes except for those on page 5 of this thread...much of it was experimental until we nailed it down.

I just verified that the changes are working in my live shop...1.5.5d. The site map, horizontal menu (css dropdown on my website), and center box subcategories are working. I do not use the sidebox menu, so, let me know if you are using it and I'll open up my test shop to help if needed.

Did you add the option to your admin table layout settings and set it to the correct value?

Yeah I added the option and set it. I was eager to go live w/ the westminster new template, so I'm setting up a /test site now to experiment w/ it more on the classic template. I switched it late at night to see if the template was the cause, and it didn't seem to be the cause of it not working. I struggled to bring my site up to 1.5.5d from 1.3.9 recently, so it's probably something I did.

[mikeel100]

I feel your pain...took me a while to upgrade as well. I tried Westminster a couple of years ago and had to abandon it.

Be careful with the responsive templates...I'm having an awful time with page load speeds when I use the default install in 1.5.5d. The layout is okay but I do not like the performance.

It sounds like you are on the right path. I probably don't need to say this but...after you fresh install your test shop and before installing any other mods, I recommend you copy the classic files to your template system and modify the appropriate files with the suggestions on page 5 of this feed and test them first.

Good luck.

[lat9]

I feel your pain...took me a while to upgrade as well. I tried Westminster a couple of years ago and had to abandon it.

Be careful with the responsive templates...I'm having an awful time with page load speeds when I use the default install in 1.5.5d. The layout is okay but I do not like the performance.

It sounds like you are on the right path. I probably don't need to say this but...after you fresh install your test shop and before installing any other mods, I recommend you copy the classic files to your template system and modify the appropriate files with the suggestions on page 5 of this feed and test them first.

Good luck.

There's a plugin (Clone a Template) that will help! Just "clone" the classic template.

[mikeel100]

There's a plugin (Clone a Template) that will help! Just "clone" the classic template.

Thanks for the tip. The link is not working.

[lat9]

Thanks for the tip. The link is not working.

That's weird, it worked for me just now.

[mikeel100]

That's weird, it worked for me just now.

It is not working with Chrome in my Samsung Android tablet.

I don't know why.

A new tab opens with this "https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2087" in the address bar but the page never opens???

[carlwhat]

I feel your pain...took me a while to upgrade as well. I tried Westminster a couple of years ago and had to abandon it.

Be careful with the responsive templates...I'm having an awful time with page load speeds when I use the default install in 1.5.5d. The layout is okay but I do not like the performance.

It sounds like you are on the right path. I probably don't need to say this but...after you fresh install your test shop and before installing any other mods, I recommend you copy the classic files to your template system and modify the appropriate files with the suggestions on page 5 of this feed and test them first.

Good luck.

i am not sure why a responsive design template would in fact be slower.... other than the template itself might be poorly coded.... but a responsive design template per se, in my experience, does not slow a site down...

page speed, y-slow and the like are all fine.... they can point you to elements that can make your site faster..... and caching resources definitely helps with a responsive template (or any template for that matter), but...

https://www.webpagetest.org/

really tells a better story (thanks to @rodg)....

in my experience, ZC can slow down due to database lookups, and hosting on fast servers makes a big difference....

and when i say a fast server, i mean a server with SSD drives including hosting of of your database. big difference IMHO....

if you can ssh to your server, you can test the speed of your drives. you are looking for under 1 second when you run the following code:

time for i in `seq 1 1000`; do
    dd bs=4k if=/dev/sda count=1 skip=$(( $RANDOM * 128 )) >/dev/null 2>&1;
done;

and if your disks respond with under 1 second, ensure that your db is hosted on the same server. i have had some shared hosts where they claimed SSD drives, only to host the db on a separate server using HDD.

best.