Pandabear wants to display category boxes on their forum’s main page, even on mobile devices. Currently, the category box only appears when a user is in a specific category. Benjamin_D suggests setting the default homepage to categories, but Pandabear wants the homepage to be “latest posts” and still have the category box visible.
Benjamin_D is unsure how to achieve this, but Pandabear provides a mock image of what they want. Benjamin_D suggests creating a plugin to display subcategories in the category dropdown.
Pandabear is satisfied with having the category box visible on mobile devices, even if it doesn’t show subcategories. Benjamin_D provides a possible solution by removing the hidden class from the category breadcrumb element.
Benjamin_D provides a script that works, and Pandabear implements it. However, the menu now loads slowly, and the category description is visible. Benjamin_D provides a solution to hide the category description.
Pandabear thanks Benjamin_D for their help and mentions that the script doesn’t always load the category box. Pandabear is willing to pay or make a donation to have this feature implemented properly.
But what I would like is that the category boxes always appear, if I put categories as the home page they do not appear. Also I would like the home page to be latest posts
this is what i get
weird, I thought this was it but now I can’t find the state of category breadcrumb you describe, I might have misunderstood/be mistaken .
Is the screenshot, where “todas las categorias” and “todas” both appear in the breadcrumbs, an actual page, and if so, what is its url ? foro0.com/ ?
Considering this topic: Category pulldown search does not show subcategories , it might not be a good UI idea, as you would have too much subcategories in the dropdown, without any category selected, also the search feature of the category dropdown does include the subcategories.
This image is not from a valid url. It is an image that I made with paint. I would love my forum to be like this. That the categories boxes will always appear on the main page. And also the last messages read. My forum has too many categories so I can’t put categories as the main page. Thank you
Then I think unfortunately there is no parameter to achieve your goal, my guess for the easiest way would be a plugin to display the subcategories within the category in its dropdown (as in the topic creation one) and display it in the latest mobile view.
At least for now and for the desktop view you might what to consider changing desktop category page style to “categories and latest” and displaying categories as homepage.
Thank you for your quick answer.
I don’t mind that it doesn’t show subcategory. I am satisfied that the category box always appears in the mobile version
If it is something similar. In the desktop version it is always there, in the mobile version it is hidden if you are not in a category.
Thank you for helping. I can wait as long as it takes
Thank you very much for everything, you have helped me a lot. I am going to continue investigating, perhaps being a script it does not always load it, for example if I enter a category and then I peek at the logo to go home sometimes it does not appear and I have to update the web