Using QCategories you can insert links to all categories of a given section in a module position.
The layout is similar to what you get when you create a Section Layout menu item, but inside a module. You can choose whether the page linked from each category link will be displayed with a table or blog layout.
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Module parameters
You can configure QCategories from Module Manager in Joomla backend.- Section. Select from the list the section whose categories will be displayed in module.
- Layout. Select whether category pages must be displayed with a blog or table layout.
- Show Empty Categories. Show links to categories with no items.
- Show Counters. Show the number of items in each category.
- Show Description. Show category description.
- Cut Description? Choose whether category description will be displayed in full or cut after the first period or paragraph. Ignored if Show Description is set to No.
- Allowed Tags in Description. List of html tags allowed in category description when it is displayed by module.
- Order By. Select in which order links to categories will be displayed inside the module: alphabetically by category title, by number of items with categories containing more items at the top, by default order as set in Joomla backend (Content >> Category Manager).
Controlling module layout
To change the appearance of links, counters and category descriptions you can modify the template.css file of your template with the appropriate css rules. Some examples.
Changing category links style
.qcategories a {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}Changing category description style
.qcategories span.description {
color: #333333;
}Changing counters style
.qcategories span.small {
color: #a0a0a0;
}
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