Hidding a catagory

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• 422 Developer MVP

  April 2012

  If you know the id, eg #bob

  In css you could do #bob {display:none;}

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• peregrine ☯ MVP

  April 2012

  are you hiding it because you only want certain viewers to see it.
  if so you can set custom permission for the category in the dashboard for example and only let moderators view it.

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• superstunts

  April 2012

  No, I would still like everyone to see it, but the discussions made in that catagory can only be seen by clicking on the catagory on the sidebar.

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• peregrine ☯ MVP

  April 2012

  Did you try the css? Do you feel comfortable modifying helper_functions.php? Do you know how to create a new theme? Do you know nopresnik?

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• peregrine ☯ MVP

  April 2012

  if you feel comfortable creating theme or modifying

  vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php

  you could add the line below replacing "my-category" in lowercase to the category you want to exclude - it should hide the discussions in that category on "All discussions page", but still allow you to view those discussions when you click on the category. make sure it is all lower case and separate words with hyphens.

  if ((!$Sender->Category) && ($Discussion->CategoryUrlCode == "my-category")) return;

  in vanilla 2.0.18.4 it a snippet will look like this below, with added line if the category to remove is called "banned appeals"

  <?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
  
  function WriteDiscussion($Discussion, &$Sender, &$Session, $Alt2) {
   if ((!$Sender->Category) && ($Discussion->CategoryUrlCode == "banned-appeals")) return;
     static $Alt = FALSE;
     $CssClass = 'Item';
  

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• peregrine ☯ MVP

  April 2012

  Oh my there isnow a plugin for it! http://vanillaforums.org/addon/hidecategory-plugin

  no need to change the helper functions.

  @x00 it would be cool if you incorporated this in to your categories plugin, i'm sure you could make it more elegant.

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