How to get subcategory links to show up below category heading?

When I click on a category on the left side menu, the subcategories show up under it, but I also want the subcategory links to be displayed in the middle of the screen, right below the category header, so that you dont just have a blank screen staring back at you.

Here is an example of what I want:

http://www.thecataloguestop.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=55

My website with the issue:

www<dot>homeandgiftavenue<dot>com

Thanks in advance!

In the admin go to Configuration -> Layout Settings and change "Categories - Always Open to Show SubCategories" to on. Then use the stylesheet to make it look the way you want.

That affects the categories sidebox.

For the center column, the setting is Comfiguration > Product Listing > Show SubCategories on Main Page while navigating.

I think what you'ere looking for is the bottom option in Admin - Configuration - Product Listing

(Two minutes late - again.)

I actually have both options "on" and it still isnt showing.

Any other suggestions guys??

hsyong strikes again!
Your template designer has permanently removed the ability to show subcategories here:

Search the forum on the red text to find the thread with the fix.

And write to the template supplier and complain about this disabling of a standard function. They could have gotten the same effect by including a SQL patch to make an admin setting for Configuration > Product Listing > Show SubCategories on Main Page while navigating, and left you ultimate control over it.

IT WORKS!!!

I added the following:

Your right, this could have easily been accomplished by writing a sql patch....I dont even know why it was disabled! I think that the subcategories showing in the category header looks fab!

Thanks again to the zen crew for always coming up with prompt answers :clap:

I've got the same problem, that the subcategories don't show when I select one of the main categories. Everything is set in Product Listing, the lines in "tpl_index_categories.php" are there, too.

But "tpl_index_categories.php" is never called within a category, only in the main page (where, accordingly, the main categories are displayed)!

Any idea?

Thank you!

Cheers, Ralf.

For starters, let's see your site so we can tell if it is one of the known issues.

What do you have for admin > Configuration > Product Listing >
Show SubCategories on Main Page while navigating

Hi Glenn,

thanks for dropping in.

And you helped me solve it, thank you!
While writing down the details here, I got more ideas, did more testing and found the problem.

All the settings were right. I had at some point read (in the Sarkar book) that there cannot be subcategories and products in one category. This is not entirely true, because that's what I had. And I saw no reason (still don't see one) why not. Now I found that normally it is not possible to enter both products AND categories within a category from the backend.
BUT I did not enter the stuff manually, my client uploaded it from his ERP system. And his ERP had no problem doing the impossible ...

Now I moved the products elsewhere, so only subcategories remain. Voilà.

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Ralf.

The system does not have safeguards to prevent products and subcats from being moved in together, but it will not be a happy marriage:)

As you found, both cannot be displayed together in standard template pages; and having them mixed up in the structure can cause problems with various kinds of searches and pricing.