Hi! The default “Staff” category, which remained hidden since I set up Discourse, suddenly re-appeared on my forum homepage. It seems to be related to an app rebuild I just launched. Did a setting change for this version? [01] Thanks!

You can target it with the data attribute tr[data-category-id="4"] { display: none; }

Yes, depending on what your homepage is set to, that setting only applies to Latest now. If you want to hide it from the Categories page, you have to use CSS. See Unexpected interaction between "suppress category on homepage" and "user preference for homepage" - #8 by sam

I don’t think I can use CSS selectors to match a tr data-category-id. This would have to be done with JS, am I right? [14]

Thanks for teaching me something! It works perfectly.

Thanks for sharing this. I’m curious if there’s a way to have it also affect categories in mobile view? Right now it’s not working for me outside of desktop view. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I used Discourse for an online interactive narrative experience that has distinct in-world and out-of-world elements. Right now a bunch out-of-world categories are littering my in-world front page in mobile view. Thanks again!

Hi, I can’t find the post I previous made to which Joshua responded with something very similar, in our case; .category-list tr[data-category-id="14"] { display: none; } Our problem is that this only appears to work for non mobile platforms, as such, everything we have hidden via CSS still shows on mobile. Any thoughts/help would be really appreciated.

Just to rule out the obvious, you put that same CSS in the Mobile version (or Common – I think?) of the theme too, right?

Right, we were previously missing the data-category-id on the mobile category page, which made it impossible to select specific categories in most cases. I made a change last week to include it so mobile/desktop will work the same, and I believe the update should roll out to you within the next day or so.

It wasn’t myself making the changes but yes, I believe so. Thanks for checking :slight_smile:

Aha, great stuff, I will mention this to those involved. Thank you :slight_smile:

Just wantes to check, has our hosted instance beem updated yet? If so, its not working on mobile. If not, any eta @awesomerobot?

Hidden category appearing again after update

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RobMeade (Rob Meade) June 6, 2018, 3:16pm 19

*BOOM*

Thanks so much for this Kris, it has been a mild iteration for so long and to have it finally resolved feels great.

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