[solved] How to remove subcategories from the homepage

[nzecheru]

Hello,

 

 

I would like to remove the subcategories from the homepage. When you click on a category it will show the category picture (which is OK) and below this picture it shows the subcategories. I want to remove the subcategories (but still show them in the left column), how can I do that?

 

http://s764.photobuc...9-22PM.png.html

 

I am using the default theme in version 1.5.4.1

 

 

Thank you,

Nicu.

[amr.rs]

You can just make that div hidden.

[vekia]

but he want main categories probably (not whole div with categories)

[nzecheru]

Correct. I Just need the main category to be displayed and just remove the listing with all subcategories.

 

In which file do I find this: <div id="subcategories">

 

Maybe if i comment this part it will not be displayed, right?

Edited July 9, 2013 by nzecheru (see edit history)

[vekia]

i checked sources, well i think that you can hide it

 

open the category.tpl file located in your theme dir

then comment code:

 

{*
{if isset($subcategories)}
 <!-- Subcategories -->
 <div id="subcategories">
  <h3>{l s='Subcategories'}</h3>
  <ul class="inline_list">
  {foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}
   <li class="clearfix">
 <a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" title="{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="img">
  {if $subcategory.id_image}
   <img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($subcategory.link_rewrite, $subcategory.id_image, 'medium_default')}" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
  {else}
   <img src="{$img_cat_dir}default-medium_default.jpg" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
  {/if}
 </a>
 <a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="cat_name">{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>
 {if $subcategory.description}
  <p class="cat_desc">{$subcategory.description}</p>
 {/if}
   </li>
  {/foreach}
  </ul>
  <br class="clear"/>
 </div>
 {/if}
}*

[nzecheru]

i checked sources, well i think that you can hide it

 

open the category.tpl file located in your theme dir

then comment code:

 

{*
{if isset($subcategories)}
 <!-- Subcategories -->
 <div id="subcategories">
  <h3>{l s='Subcategories'}</h3>
  <ul class="inline_list">
  {foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}
<li class="clearfix">
 <a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" title="{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="img">
  {if $subcategory.id_image}
   <img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($subcategory.link_rewrite, $subcategory.id_image, 'medium_default')}" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
  {else}
   <img src="{$img_cat_dir}default-medium_default.jpg" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
  {/if}
 </a>
 <a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="cat_name">{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>
 {if $subcategory.description}
  <p class="cat_desc">{$subcategory.description}</p>
 {/if}
</li>
  {/foreach}
  </ul>
  <br class="clear"/>
 </div>
 {/if}
}*

 

Thank you very much vekia!

 

 

If I comment the entire section it hides the content - right column shifts next to the left column...

 

 

What I did was to comment everything from

 

<h3>{l s='Subcategories'}</h3>

 

to

 

{/foreach}

</ul>

 

{if isset($subcategories)}
 <!-- Subcategories -->
 <div id="subcategories">
  <!--
  <h3>{l s='Subcategories'}</h3>
  <ul class="inline_list">
  {foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}
   <li class="clearfix">
 <a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" title="{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="img">


	  {if $subcategory.id_image}
   <img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($subcategory.link_rewrite, $subcategory.id_image, 'medium_default')}" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
  {else}
   <img src="{$img_cat_dir}default-medium_default.jpg" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
  {/if}
 </a>

 <a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="cat_name">{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>
 {if $subcategory.description}
  <p class="cat_desc">{$subcategory.description}</p>
 {/if}

   </li>

  {/foreach}
  </ul>
  -->
  <br class="clear"/>
 </div>
 {/if}

[tdr170]

You need to comment out the entire code from opening {if isset($subcategories)} to closing {/if}.

basically all the code vekia posted, If your sure you can also just delete the code from the file.

 

 

 

 

{*

{if isset($subcategories)}

<!-- Subcategories -->

<div id="subcategories">

<h3>{l s='Subcategories'}</h3>

<ul class="inline_list">

{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}

<li class="clearfix">

<a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" title="{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="img">

{if $subcategory.id_image}

<img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($subcategory.link_rewrite, $subcategory.id_image, 'medium_default')}" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />

{else}

<img src="{$img_cat_dir}default-medium_default.jpg" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />

{/if}

</a>

<a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" class="cat_name">{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>

{if $subcategory.description}

<p class="cat_desc">{$subcategory.description}</p>

{/if}

</li>

{/foreach}

</ul>

<br class="clear"/>

</div>

{/if}

*}

Edited July 10, 2013 by tdr170 (see edit history)

[amr.rs]

If you don't want to remove it or comment it you can try something like this.

 

<div id="subcategories" style="display: none;">

[vekia]

i think that method suggested by amr.rs will be fine for SEO purposes

[nzecheru]

Thank you all for your help, it works great!

Can someone mark this topic as solved?

[vekia]

done. thread marked as [solved]

 

anyway, you can also mark own threads as [solved]- here is an instruction:

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