What I’d like to do (as I know there’s no baked in setting or feature set) is use CSS to group categories on the home page.
I’m not looking to nest categories, but just group some together and possibly put a header on them. I know the individual categories can be “separated” with padding, and I know each category can be targeted by category ID or category name. So what I’m hoping is to be able to replicate something that looks like this:

I realize for simplicity, the categories would have to be in their sorted order, and each category targeted by catediry_id, but I’m thinking that there’s possibly some CSS that can throw padding after one category or before another.
The big question is there the ability to insert some text in the padding to create a header?
The propose of this is to first break up the long category list view, but separate: example
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category 1-2 under “staff” header
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Category 3-4 under “community resources)
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categories 5,8,11,12,13 “under general discussion categories”
I don’t want to make these sub categories, I like the structure and category system just as it is. All I want to do is display the categories a little differently on the categories view page. Ideally this is just a visual layout, NOTHING to change with the library structure of the platform.
Any idea how to make this happen?
This would be kind of a game changer for my work collaboration site’s layout.
Sam, codinghorror, do you think there would be a way to create a grouping step in the category reorganization menu that could do this natively, say as an option (grouping on/off).just put the categories in order within main page grouping and it could automatically separare them. In core, plugin or a theme component?
but maybe someone else needs it. I must mention that:







