But I want to put them vertically as most readers will read columns vertically:
Alabama --- Arkanzas Alaska --- California Arizona --- Colorado
Of course I can rename all of them in the vertical order
but I' will be adding more categories ( for cities) and I would not be able to rename the categories all the time to fit a category in it's alphabetical spot.
So how do put all categories alphabetically vertically?
Possibly some sort of container <div> could make things stack vertically, but table cells aren't really made to allow that. I guess you could set the columns to 0, remove all the table-related html, then do something along the lines of
Thanks. Any chance to be more specific? I did not understand a thing.
I'm just curious that for 3+ years of wsn links' life no one ever wondered about such a simple thing?
is there any easy way to it?
may it could be one of the features: place categories horisontally or vertically?
I actually managed to place the categories alphabetically vertically by using CATPROIRITY with default template but it is a very time consuming and complecated way. More over you have re-assign the priorities all the time if you add or remove any categories.
It's a possible future feature, if I decide to get rid of most of the tables and transition everything to <div>s. That wouldn't be until a 4.0 version most likely though. For now you have to know HTML to do it.
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I want to list my category vertically by geographical names.
Currently I can only put categories alphabetically only horizontally ( I use 3-4 columns)
Alabama ---- Alaska ------- Arizona
Arkanzas ----California ----Colorado
But I want to put them vertically as most readers will read columns vertically:
Alabama --- Arkanzas
Alaska --- California
Arizona --- Colorado
Of course I can rename all of them in the vertical order
but I' will be adding more categories ( for cities) and I would not be able to rename the categories all the time to fit a category in it's alphabetical spot.
So how do put all categories alphabetically vertically?
Thanks
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Possibly some sort of container <div> could make things stack vertically, but table cells aren't really made to allow that. I guess you could set the columns to 0, remove all the table-related html, then do something along the lines of
presuming I remembered the template var for the number of subcategories correctly there.
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Thanks.
Any chance to be more specific? I did not understand a thing.
I'm just curious that for 3+ years of wsn links' life no one ever wondered about such a simple thing?
is there any easy way to it?
may it could be one of the features: place categories horisontally or vertically?
I actually managed to place the categories alphabetically vertically by using CATPROIRITY with default template but it is a very time consuming and complecated way. More over you have re-assign the priorities all the time if you add or remove any categories.
There must be an easy way of doing this.
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It's a possible future feature, if I decide to get rid of most of the tables and transition everything to <div>s. That wouldn't be until a 4.0 version most likely though. For now you have to know HTML to do it.
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I did this by following the tip in the manual KB. It didn't work...but I used the idea and made a modification/verticalcol.php file:
and in main.tpl, I removed the tables and put
<IF {FUNC_VERTICALCOL[{CATNUMBER} <,> {TOTALCATS}]}></ul></div><div class="column"><ul></IF>where I wanted to start a new column (it closes the div an starts a new one, use css float:left on .column to make them side by side).
My question: {TOTALCATS} gives the number of cats in the whole directory, whats the variable for the number of cats being displayed on the page?
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You're limiting the number of categories per page? You can use
<?php if ({TOTALCATS} > {CATSPERPAGE}) echo {CATSPERPAGE}; else echo {TOTALCATS}; ?>