Categories not visible on homepage

[parrotbunch]

Hi,

 

Today I installed Prestashop on my website www.parrotbunch.com/webshop . I was able to add some subcategories and they where visible on the homepage under the block 'Categories'. But I don't know what I've changed but now they are no longer visible. You can only see the block Categories.

Can anybody please help me set this block back with the visible categories?

THank you VERY MUCH!

Greetings,

Jessie

[phrasespot]

First disable any performance tweaks (Back Office > Preferences > Performance > Smarty: force compile=yes, cache=no)

Then try disabling animated categories in categories block module (Back Office > Modules > Front office features Categories block > Configure: dynamic=no)

Are your categories back? If so enable dynamic again. Are they still there? If resolved remember to revert performance settings.

[djpaul]

Hello,

I have the same prob. It worked before and suddenly they where gone.

Tried almost everything, Force compile is on, cache is off. Dynamic in the catrgories block is disabled.

Uploaded new files from the zip to the server. Nothing...

In the back i can see my (2) categories. Also i Truncated the categories in the db.

TRUNCATE ps_category;

TRUNCATE ps_category_lang;

TRUNCATE ps_category_group;

 

After that:

INSERT INTO ps_category (id_category, id_parent, level_depth, nleft, nright, active, date_add, date_upd, position) VALUES

(1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, NOW(), NOW(), 0);

INSERT INTO ps_cms_category_lang (`id_cms_category`, `id_lang`, `name`, `description`, `link_rewrite`, `meta_title`, `meta_keywords`,

`meta_description`) VALUES (1, 1, 'home', '', 'home', '', '', '');

INSERT INTO ps_category_group (id_category, id_group) VALUES (1, 1);

 

So the home category works again and I added 2 new categories in the backoffice.

 

Ohyeah, presta version 1.4.8.2...

 

Regards,

paul

[djpaul]

Correction: Now i see the categories. But when I turn on dynamic, the categories dissapear again..

Did i miss something to insert into the db?