Dreadknux Posted February 8, 2022 Posted February 8, 2022 How do I customise a Category Listing template in Pages so that sub-category records (as well as category records) are visible, preferably in a masonry-style layout with pagination (similar to the 'Category 2 Column First Featured' template that's seemingly designed only for top-level category indexes)? For example, I have the following Pages database/category structure: domain.com/articles domain.com/articles/features domain.com/articles/news (three records exist) domain.com/articles/news/games (five records exist) domain.com/articles/news/comics (two records exist) domain.com/articles/news/movies (three records exist) For the /articles/ top-level category, I can simply use the built-in 'Category 2 Column First Featured' template to get the desired design I like. This template includes all posts within the entire /articles/ database, including those from sub-categories like 'features' and 'news' and all the sub-categories within those too. This is great. No complaints here. But when I visit domain.com/articles/news, I am both unable to easily use the 'Category 2 Column First Featured' masonry template design, nor am I able to see sub-category records on the page. Underneath the subcategory table in the default view, I only see three records (the three that were created specifically within that /news/ category). What I want to do is set things so that records from /articles/news, /articles/news/games, /articles/news/comics and /articles/news/movies all appear on the /articles/news/ category listing. How do I make that happen? I must admit I'm quite proficient in CSS/template design, but the technical/coding side of Invision is a little beyond me 😄 I feel like this would require some level of unique php coding to call sub-cat records or something, but maybe there's a solution already out there that I'm not aware of? Appreciate any help!
Marc Posted February 9, 2022 Posted February 9, 2022 As we cannot assist with the designing of pages, I have moved this to community support for you. There are quite a lot of people who have done a lot of different designs with these. So Im sure someone will have something that fits the bill Dreadknux 1
Dreadknux Posted February 28, 2022 Author Posted February 28, 2022 Just bumping this - if anyone has any solutions/plugins that help achieve this that would be great to know.
Dreadknux Posted April 27, 2022 Author Posted April 27, 2022 It’s been several months… I guess nobody really does have any solution to this after all?
opentype Posted April 28, 2022 Posted April 28, 2022 Categories work like folders. You need to open one after another to see what is inside. It’s not just a matter of templates, it’s what data the IPS code offers for listing views. So, no, there is no solution. If you really need it, it would be a paid job for a developer.
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