[Paul Littlewood]

Hi,

I’m trying to get Slim Plus template to display the categories as a list instead of dropdown.

I tried changing the categorySelect() function:

public static function categorySelect() {

        $atts = array(
            'default'    => self::$atts['str_select'] ,
            'select_all' => self::$atts['str_select_all'],
            'type'       => 'link',
            'group'      => self::$atts['enable_category_group_by_parent'],
            'show_count' => self::$atts['show_category_count'],
            'show_empty' => self::$atts['show_empty_categories'],
            'parent_id'  => self::$atts['enable_category_by_root_parent'] ? self::$atts['category'] : array(),
            'exclude'    => self::$atts['exclude_category'],
            );

        cnTemplatePart::category( $atts );
    }

The result is that the list of categories gets generated OK but the links don’t work. The links generated from the dropdown list are query strings (e.g. ?cn-cat=71). The links generated by this new list are in the format “/cat/category”. Clicking on the link doesn’t show any of the entries for the category. Can you please advise on how I can achieve the same functionality as the dropdown but just in a simple list?

• This topic was modified 9 years, 11 months ago by Paul Littlewood.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Paul

Do you have permalinks enabled on your site? The results you are seeing seem to be correct. Can you share a link to the page?

[Paul Littlewood]

Hi Steven,
Thanks for your reply. Yes Permalinks enabled.

Page link:
http://www.ohpropertygroup.com/service-providers/

[Steven Zahm]

@ Paul

The issue is that there has been custom CSS added to the site which is hiding the results list. You are going to have to remove this custom CSS. The CSS code is found in the page head. Here it is:

<style>.connections-list {display:none;}</style>

This must be remove or the the directory will always be hidden from view.

Hope that helps! Let me know.

[Paul Littlewood]

Oh wow, thanks I forgot I did that. What an idiot!

It was a lazy way of hiding the full list of entries on the main page. Is there an easy way to only display entries on the category pages?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Paul

re: Is there an easy way to only display entries on the category pages?

Well, there is but you would have to alter the code to work your changes. Here’s the link to the tutorial.

http://connections-pro.com/2015/04/23/quicktip-show-no-entries-until-user-performs-a-search/

Hope that helps!

[Paul Littlewood]

Thanks so much!

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