Categories header not functioning properly

[RuthBlackParticipant]

Really happy with my upgrade to 2.9.4 which wasn’t nearly as painful as expected, the only major problem I’m finding now is with my header menu.

It’s made up of 5 categories, 3 of which have dropdown menus with sub-categories. The problem is that with these 3, I can’t click on the parent category but have to select a sub-category.

For example, my category “cupcakes” has over 500 images but only about half of them are sub-categorized, so a customer browsing by categories is only seeing about half of them.

BTW I’m using the newer version of CleanTheme from Leo, but I don’t think that’s the problem as it was the same before I installed it

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

I have seen this new behavior too, so I figured it was intentional (as part of the removal of display of sub categories). I’m working with/around this by consolidating and re-arranging the menus.

So in the case of your Cupcakes menu I would put in an entry at the top “All cupcakes” or “Browse cupcakes” (or something like that).

BTW your site – and your wonderful images of cakes – are a delight 🙂

[ChristineParticipant]

I was thinking the same as Jo Ann – adding another category with All Cupcakes should get around your problem.

I came across your site the other day and vowed never to visit again 🙂 Your images are a joy to look at, but I think I put on pounds just by looking (and then going and making some bread as cakes are currently off the menu )

Plus I have just learned the difference between macarons and macroons as I thought you had a spelling mistake but they are different things

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[cascolyBlocked]

yes, that’s a new feature that crept in recently.

i’d suggested earlier that we need a way to show just the category images that are NOT in a subcategory

eg, in my birds category, i’d like to be able to show birds that are neither penguins nor puffins
http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image-categories/

another approach would be a search that recognized NOT , eg ‘bird -penguin’

[RuthBlackParticipant]

Thanks Jo Ann and Christine for the suggestion, and the nice comments, I’ve added in the extra categories which is probably more obvious than having the customer click on the top header anyway.

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