Whats The Secret To Display Category Thumbnails?

[Billy]

I would like to display thumbnails on all my main category pages.

All the thumbnails sould link to my sub_categories then my sub_categories ect...

This is a very intutive way for people to drill down on these websites.

 

https://www.greatplainselectronics.com/categories.asp?cat=35

 

This website link above explains exactly what I want to do.

See how nice they are? This isn't new is it? I have looked

thru the whole darn site and I can't find a way to do this.

 

So how is the feature pulled off in prestashop 1.6.0.14 ?

 

Thanks in advance

Billy

Edited May 3, 2015 by Billy (see edit history)

[razaro]

Displaying subcategories should be enabled by default.

See if module theme configurator is installed and in settings see if maybe in its options,

Display subcategories is enabled. 

 

If you have custom theme check if category.tpl have this code

		{if isset($subcategories)}
        {if (isset($display_subcategories) && $display_subcategories eq 1) || !isset($display_subcategories) }
		<!-- Subcategories -->
		<div id="subcategories">
			<p class="subcategory-heading">{l s='Subcategories'}</p>
			<ul class="clearfix">
			{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}
				<li>
                	<div class="subcategory-image">
						<a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}" title="{$subcategory.name|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}" class="img">
						{if $subcategory.id_image}
							<img class="replace-2x" src="{$link->getCatImageLink($subcategory.link_rewrite, $subcategory.id_image, 'medium_default')|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
						{else}
							<img class="replace-2x" src="{$img_cat_dir}{$lang_iso}-default-medium_default.jpg" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />
						{/if}
					</a>
                   	</div>
					<h5><a class="subcategory-name" href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}">{$subcategory.name|truncate:25:'...'|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}</a></h5>
					{if $subcategory.description}
						<div class="cat_desc">{$subcategory.description}</div>
					{/if}
				</li>
			{/foreach}
			</ul>
		</div>
        {/if}
		{/if}

[Billy]

That bit of code seemed to help alot. However its pulling the banner image and not the thumbnail image.

 

Thank you I am one step closer.

[Billy]

I think I found the solution. I will run down this road and see if it solves my issues.

 

 

http://nemops.com/prestashop-categories-second-image/#.VUardpMYE4A

 

Unless anyone else might have a better solution. I just dont understand why the thumbnails don't work. You can see them and the banner when you edit you categories. Both images are there in admin. What the heck...