Alex KarisOr, use the Enhance Categories extension and disable the categories drop down, that way you can list an index of categories above the directory and even make the categories section in the entry card clickable to allow the user to filter by category.
Please point me in the direction of this tutorial, I can’t find anything about it.
2nd: Are you saying search must be by business name or keyword, you can’t search by a category? When someone has hundreds of categories, noone is going to want to you use a drop down menu to scroll forever… That’s dissapointing that someone can’t search by a category in the search box. Maybe it should read, search by business name. The only other solution is stick a keyword in the bios of all the listings. Aother 3 hour job!
Maybe I will try the latter and get rid of the drop down but still that is going to look crazy when you i have 184 categories.
re: category count
That is odd. Can you try adding a dummy entry and then deleting it? Perhaps the counts, which are cached, were not cleared and you are seeing old counts.
Are the counts accurating on the Connections : Categories admin page? NO they all say zero as well. How do you clear this out??
Alex