amount of categories per page ( limit ot 8 )

Hey guys I have been looking for this everywhere and hopefully someone can help me.

I know how to limit the amount of products per page ( i have set it to 8 ) which is fine, I know how to set the amount of categories per row ( i have it as 4 as i want to rows of 4 )

But I also want to limit it 8 categorises and sub categories per page. ( or in other words limit it to 2 rows of 4 categories )

So if i go to "rings" and there is 12 categories of rings it only shows the 8 catergores on the 1st page and the remainding 4 on the next page

is this possible?

This open source software, so most things are possible if you're prepared to roll up your sleeves and do so programming.

This is a good example of that. What you want isn't supported by Zen Cart in its normal release state, so extra would be needed.

Restricting the display to 8 categories is probably not too difficult. A simple limit on the database query that pulls their information from the database would probably do that. However, introducing pagination to show the overflow is likely to be a much more complex piece of work and require close to professional level skills.