Nesting Categories / Hiding till clicked?

Wizrd23

Hi all - I recently setup the Silicon theme and Vanilla Forums for my engineering group. I've created a bunch of different categories, and some will have sub categories where I will assign a specific role and make the sub-category private. I have nested all the groups but they all show up in 1 long list. Is there a way to make them hide until the main category is clicked? and then discussions live below the sub-categories? I can't seem to figure it out

peregrine

alot of people have little issues with premium themes, there is occasionally a snag that makes the plugin inoperable, because many plugins rely on a certain css structure that is afforded by the basic core themes. Once that structure changes and classnames and ids change, all bet are off.

And then it becomes nearly impossible and/or a burden on regular forum members to answer your question, because they don't own the theme, and is also difficult for the developer of the plugin to give you tips, since they may not own the theme either.

So there are pros and cons of getting a premium theme that is not freely available to look at the code.

In that case best to contact the author of theme on the site where you purchased the theme.

you could also try ... panelboxtoggles.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/221873/#Comment_221873

the problem lies in the fact the theme developer is trying to make some money on hard-earned work, and if instead they provided it for free and requested donations, there would always be those people who say its free, why should I donate. So, its a community thing.... premium allows developer to make some bucks ... theme source is unavailable unless purchased ... general community can't troubleshoot effectively without seeing code or purchasing. vs if a developer puts up theme but expects donations if theme is used live ,,, people welch on deal, or feel if its free why contribute to developer. Its kind of the bed users and developers make for themselves.

peregrine

there is something like this in the addons section I can't recall the name.

but you can type category or categories in the addon search bar and you should be able to find something like that.

have you tried any of the category related plugins, if so what.

Wizrd23

I have tried all 3 that I could find: CategoriesDropdown, ExpandableCategories, SubCategories. I tried it with the default theme, and now I am using Silicon theme. They don't seem to do anything. The categories stay in a long list. I also made sure to turn off things like "Place nested categories in a comma-delimited list when they are NEVER". Do I need to edit something with the plugin? None of them seem to add functionality to the dashboard.

peregrine

alot of people have little issues with premium themes, there is occasionally a snag that makes the plugin inoperable, because many plugins rely on a certain css structure that is afforded by the basic core themes. Once that structure changes and classnames and ids change, all bet are off.

And then it becomes nearly impossible and/or a burden on regular forum members to answer your question, because they don't own the theme, and is also difficult for the developer of the plugin to give you tips, since they may not own the theme either.

So there are pros and cons of getting a premium theme that is not freely available to look at the code.

In that case best to contact the author of theme on the site where you purchased the theme.

you could also try ... panelboxtoggles.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/221873/#Comment_221873

the problem lies in the fact the theme developer is trying to make some money on hard-earned work, and if instead they provided it for free and requested donations, there would always be those people who say its free, why should I donate. So, its a community thing.... premium allows developer to make some bucks ... theme source is unavailable unless purchased ... general community can't troubleshoot effectively without seeing code or purchasing. vs if a developer puts up theme but expects donations if theme is used live ,,, people welch on deal, or feel if its free why contribute to developer. Its kind of the bed users and developers make for themselves.