Home Page - Mall option is not showing sub categories

[winkleink]

On my site http://www.pinkdivashop.com I have the home page set to Mall which according to the description should Lists links to your site categories along with 3-4 related subcategories (see the documentation on how to customize these subcategories).

All I am getting is links to my categories not the sub categories and unlike the example image I do not get a picture either.

I checked the documentation on the AOM site and it doesn't give me any more details.

Any advice on how to get this sorted would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Albert.

[mcarp555]

The Mall setting will not display custom subcategories, or subcategories from a non-default category node. So if you build a category using Printers instead of Computers, it won't show the various printer subcats.

As for the images:

You can display icons next to your category names with this setting. It requires turning on the Category Icons setting under the Categories tab. Then you would need to rename the icons located in the /aom/themes/default/images folder (or whatever theme you're using) to include your category ID. For example, if you have an Apparel category, and the category ID from the Categories tab is app, then you would need to rename the icon_Apparel.gif image to icon_app.gif instead.

To use a custom image in place of the default one, you would rename the custom image to icon_app.gif and place it in the /aom/themes/default/images folder (or whatever theme you're using). The image would then display next to the category name.

[ThanksGod]

if I use bigger size image (100 x 100) the category name (e.g. : Apparel category) is pushed too much to the right side of the image.

How do I make that category name to show right under the image?
Please help...
Thanks.

[mcarp555]

Try this:

In the list of files for your theme (default or otherwise), open the home_mall.tpl.php file and find this section:

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		<div class="aom_home_mall_cat">
		<?php if (isset($category['Icon'])): ?>
			<img src="<?php echo $category['Icon'] ?>" alt="" style="margin-right:10px;">
		<?php endif; ?>

Add a line break after the endif statement:

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		<div class="aom_home_mall_cat">
		<?php if (isset($category['Icon'])): ?>
			<img src="<?php echo $category['Icon'] ?>" alt="" style="margin-right:10px;">
		<?php endif; ?><br>

That should start the category name on a new line below the icon image.

[ThanksGod]

Thanks Mike.
It works.

Thank you so much for your help