Categories Request, Category Title on Frontpage, Parent/Child Categories Issue
By Alaina Driscoll on Thursday, 04 September 2014
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Hello!

I'm having a few tricky issues with my site that I'm hoping you can help me with.

1) Is there a way to make my Categories page into 2 columns, instead of 1 long column? Currently it looks like this. I would like it to look more like the quickly made attachment: categories.png.

2) I removed the blog category title from my homepage, but I would like to put it back. The category is "Latest News" and I need both that and "subscribe to this category" to be visible again.

3) There's something wrong with my parent/child category settings. I have a page titled "uncategorized" which has collected every parent and child category and is displaying the posts from every category there. They are all properly child categorized on the back-end. I can't figure out why the system is behaving this way. For example, if you click from this category: to a subcategory such as "Language Arts," it brings you to a page called "untitled" with Language Arts in the URL.

Thank you in advance for all your assistance!
Sincerely,
Laine
Hello Alaina Driscoll,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.
1) The CSS code is not doing the trick unfortunately. I was hoping to have this page's categories listed in two columns. Can you have another look at that code, please?
>> I think your current browser already cached, what you need to do is clear your browser cache and Joomla cache as well.
>> Check my screenshot below. 2 column already appeared in my browser.

2) To clarify my request, on the homepage, I have the Latest News category displayed, but it doesn't say Latest News. As another example, on the Kindergarten blog page, the title displays as Kindergarten and gives the option "Subscribe to this category." I would like the Latest News/Homepage section to appear like this as well. I hope this clarifies things!
>> In other words, you would like to set your homepage display like this page? http://johncdaniels.org/index.php/blog/categories/listings/kindergarten
>> If yes, you can configure this homepage menu item type to show single category layout to achieve this.

3) It appears as though this is all set. Thank you! I'll report back after further testing on this.
>> Okay, keep us updated then.
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 06 September 2014 12:46
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Hello Alaina,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Please find your answer in your queries below :
1) Is there a way to make my Categories page into 2 columns, instead of 1 long column? Currently it looks like this. I would like it to look more like the quickly made attachment: categories.png.
>> unfortunately we do not have this setting for display 2 column of category listing layout.
>> but you can apply this CSS code in your template CSS file, so it will show 2 column in your category listing layout page. Check my screenshot below.


#eblog-wrapper #ezblog-category > div{

	width: 48%;

	display: inline-block;

}



#eblog-wrapper #ezblog-category .profile-item {

	padding: 0px !important;

}


2) I removed the blog category title from my homepage, but I would like to put it back. The category is "Latest News" and I need both that and "subscribe to this category" to be visible again.
>> I have tried to access in your Joomla backend, but i hitting this :
Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet.


3) There's something wrong with my parent/child category settings. I have a page titled "uncategorized" which has collected every parent and child category and is displaying the posts from every category there. They are all properly child categorized on the back-end. I can't figure out why the system is behaving this way. For example, if you click from this category: to a subcategory such as "Language Arts," it brings you to a page called "untitled" with Language Arts in the URL.
>> I have tried to access in your Joomla backend, but i hitting this :
Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet.

please advise.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 04 September 2014 12:22
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Hi Arlex,

Thank you so much for your speedy response and for looking into this for me. Many apologies for providing the wrong password! I have corrected this now and tested so it should work for you.

In regards to:

1) I have implemented the code and it produces this on my page. Have I done something wrong here?

Many big thanks again for all your assistance!
Sincerely,
Laine
Alaina Driscoll
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Thursday, 04 September 2014 23:47
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Hello Alaina Driscoll,

Sorry for late reply to this,
I have applied that CSS code in your JoomlaFolder/templates/yourTemplate/css/joomla25-neonstyle.css, it should display 2 column in your categories listing page now.

2) I removed the blog category title from my homepage, but I would like to put it back. The category is "Latest News" and I need both that and "subscribe to this category" to be visible again.
>> Actually I have a little bit lost here, may i know what do you mean by removed the blog category title from your homepage and need both "Subscribe to this category"? Perhaps provide us some screenshot regarding this as well?

3) There's something wrong with my parent/child category settings. I have a page titled "uncategorized" which has collected every parent and child category and is displaying the posts from every category there. They are all properly child categorized on the back-end. I can't figure out why the system is behaving this way. For example, if you click from this category: to a subcategory such as "Language Arts," it brings you to a page called "untitled" with Language Arts in the URL.
>> It seems like you have created 2 "language Arts" category in your site and i noticed that was same URL e.g http://johncdaniels.org/index.php/blog/categories/listings/language-arts-1
>> I have change another "language Arts" category permalink to http://johncdaniels.org/index.php/blog/categories/listings/language-arts-1-1
>> It should work fine now.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 05 September 2014 14:29
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Hi Arlex,

Thanks so much for your reply!! We're almost there!!

1) The CSS code is not doing the trick unfortunately. I was hoping to have this page's categories listed in two columns. Can you have another look at that code, please?

2) To clarify my request, on the homepage, I have the Latest News category displayed, but it doesn't say Latest News. As another example, on the Kindergarten blog page, the title displays as Kindergarten and gives the option "Subscribe to this category." I would like the Latest News/Homepage section to appear like this as well. I hope this clarifies things!

3) It appears as though this is all set. Thank you! I'll report back after further testing on this.

Thanks so much for your help again!!!!
Alaina Driscoll
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Saturday, 06 September 2014 01:23
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Arlex,

You are amazing! Thank you so much for all your great support and assistance!! Problems solved!!! Thank you again

Sincerely,
Alaina
Alaina Driscoll
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Monday, 08 September 2014 00:45
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hello Alaina Driscoll,

You're welcome, glad to heard your issues resolved.
I will mark this thread as resolved and lock it to avoid any confusions in the future, but if you need any help please feel free to start a new thread in our forums.
Arlex Wong
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Monday, 08 September 2014 11:31
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