By leemchildress on

Not sure this is the right Forum for this question, so I apologize in advance my forum choice was wrong.

I have installed the Category module for 4.7 and absolutely LOVE it. It meets all my needs ... however ... the "submitted by" line does not appear below the title when using categories. Is there a "quick fix" to get the submission line to reappear using categories?

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venkat-rk commented

I doubt if this has anything to do with the category module. You probably turned off the author information checkbox for the theme you are using. You can enable this again at administer>>themes>>global settings>>Display post information on

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leemchildress commented

Thanks Ramdak ... forgot that when I added the "container" type I would have to tell it to show posting information.

I'm gonna master this CMS yet!!!

Now, will I need PHP? (JUST JOKING!!!!)

Again, thanks!

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leemchildress commented

Using the category module, I would like to display a block on the left side entitled "Related Topics" which would show the "child" pages for only the current container. Is there a way to do that (which I am sure there is)?

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venkat-rk commented

Yes, you can. But, category module does not auto generate navigation blocks. Instead, it puts all menu links under the default admin Navigation menu or any other root menu you specify. You can then manually move the menu links into and out of blocks.

So, once you have created the 'Related Topics' category within the container, move that menu link to a new menu at administer>>menus>>add menu. Save the menu, enable the block at administer>>blocks and save the block configuration.

Of course, for all this to work, you should have already enabled the category_menu module at administer>>modules. And, in the category_menu settings for this particular container, enable the 'Menu items for assigned nodes'. This will put all the nodes to which you assign the 'Related Topics' category into the menu block you just created.

However, if you have plenty of nodes assigned to Related topics, you will have a HUGE block of related topics. Instead, you may want to try the Views module which will let you limit the number of nodes appearing in the block. Views is a fairly complex module, though, so you should read the documentation at www.drupal.org/handbooks/modules/views before attempting to use it.

Be aware also that category_menu module currently has some issues that the author is looking into, so you may occasionally get unexpected results;-)

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leemchildress commented

currently, all related node links are displayed below the current category ... can the category module be 'hacked' in such a way that those links can be placed in the side bar and not displayed below the category?

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venkat-rk commented

As I explained in my previous post, you can create a new menu block at administer>>menus and then move all the related node links away from the category and into that menu block.

However, I haven't done this myself so far, so I would be very interested to know if your experiment succeeds.