Displaying category description in vanilla 2

Karol

Hi,

Is anyone know how show category description?

Dr_Amazing

Category descriptions will be displayed if you're using a theme that supports them, I think.

robertburkhalter

ok. here's how I just did it

in the file vanilla-core-2-0-18-8/applications/vanilla/views/categories/all

there's a line 49 that looks like this

<div class="ItemContent Category">'.Gdn_Format::Text($Category->Name).'</div>'

just follow it with

.'<div>' .$Category->Description .'</div>'

then pour yourself a Mug Old Fashioned Root Beer....

oh, I couldn't find any theme that supports them. And with this mod, every theme will now support them.

Tama

@robertburkhalter said:
oh, I couldn't find any theme that supports them. And with this mod, every theme will now support them.

You can do theme overrides Simply take the file you want, copy it and place it in your theme views folder .So for example if you got it from applications/vanilla/views/categories/all the directory would be /themes/<themename>/views/categories/all

peregrine

@robertburkhalter

if you have anything but 1 for max depth - it shows the description in every theme I tried without your change

$Configuration['Vanilla']['Categories']['MaxDisplayDepth'] = '3';

 as long as this shows FALSE (not root headings). 
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Categories']['DoHeadings'] = 'FALSE';

robertburkhalter

Are you saying, that with the MaxDisplayDepth set at anything but 1, when any user clicks on the link labeled "Categories", all the categories and their descriptions are displayed without my fix ?

peregrine

@robertburkhalter said:
Are you saying, that with the MaxDisplayDepth set at anything but 1, when any user clicks on the link labeled "Categories", all the categories and their descriptions are displayed without my fix ?

Yes, I am saying with the two config statements set above the descriptions display on

index.php?p=/categories/all