hideCategories

[MB1]

i can seem to get hide categories to work with expanded_category_list_1-01 or any other catagory sidebox

[s_mack]

I suppose the obvious answer then is to not use those modifications. or don't use this one.

[Tefnut]

Hi, i'm trying to use this interesting mod.
I want to hide some category, but i want to let user search into hide categories or into real category
For example, i've 2 different way to let user find a product:
From category sidebox menu or from different tipe of category, but i don't want loading them every time into sidebox so i'm trying to use this mod; or from advanced seach

now i need a second category box or a different advanced search...or a second quick search with category and subcategory selection, to let users searching selecting the hidden category
it's possible?

[jjwink]

i have installed this mod with only a few issues.

I have my products set to list as columns (NOT ROWS) but only one column will show up.

Also looks like breadcrumbs is back on even when trurned off in the admin area.
(ie)
1 if i go to a categorie that has sub cats (at the top of the page it has the cat NAME then under that has cat descritpion)
(to fix this - i removed all the cat descriptions)

2 When i click on a sub cat with products. you get the cat NAME (this is fine) but under this you get four items that were not there before.

New Products (MORE)
Product Image
Item Name
Price+

Thanks in advance for any help you can give..

Site www.halloweenspace.com

[jjwink]

I uninstalled this until someone can reply with any insight.

So when you go to the site it may look likes its working but again as above i removed this mod.

[fright-rags]

I installed this and although it shows up in my admin, I can still see the category I've hidden on the front end. Am I doing something wrong? I just went to Catalog?Categories/Product and edited the category that i wanted to hide. I chose "Hidden from main menus" and updated it. The icon for that category shows up as a lighter shade of yellow with a red dot in it, so I assume that was correct. However, on my front end, it still shows up under the category listing.

[s_mack]

As a general FYI: I am not providing support. As stated all along, this was made for a certain situation and it may not suit yours. Read the readme (that answers most of the Qs) and post here for PEER support, but do not PM me please looking for help with this. I am way too busy now and in the forseeable future.

In general, if this doesn't do what you want then it is probably better to hire someone (or do yourself) to start from scratch then it is to force this into something it isn't.

- Steven

[mdegrandis]

I installed this and although it shows up in my admin, I can still see the category I've hidden on the front end. Am I doing something wrong? I just went to Catalog?Categories/Product and edited the category that i wanted to hide. I chose "Hidden from main menus" and updated it. The icon for that category shows up as a lighter shade of yellow with a red dot in it, so I assume that was correct. However, on my front end, it still shows up under the category listing.

You probably didn't merge the files correctly. This mod needs to be merged with your admin files, just like it says in the readme. Go back and double check that. There are a few to merge in. Easy way to do this is to use WinMerge. It is free, there are others, that may be better, but that takes care of that.

Separately, has anyone used this program with Google sitemaps? I noticed that my hidden cats are still in my sitemaps and want to mod that mod to not do that with the hidden cats.

Thanks, Matt

[thomasharding]

Hey There,

Your mod might be just what I'm after..

However, I noticed one of the files overwritten is the categories sidebox, which might cause a problem with the store I'm thinking of using this module on, because I'm using the yahoo AJAX category tree module.

[Baa]

Thanks for this one.

I'm just wondering if someone knows if I can keep a category in the categories sidebox but exclude it from the best sellers sidebox?

I apologise if this has been asked before, I've been unable to find a way to remove a category from the best sellers sidebox.