How to display categories' description in frontpage?

[panoss]

My VM frontpage displays categories.
But displays only the image, not the description.
How can I make it display the description?

[VMTemplates.net]

Hi,

you may need to use html override. If you already have it please open /templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_virtuemart/sublayouts/categories.php
and paste this code below somewhere between lines 67 and 79:

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<?php echo shopFunctionsF::limitStringByWord ($category->category_description, 150, ' ...') ?>

in these lines:

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    <div class="category floatleft<?php echo $category_cellwidth . $show_vertical_separator ?>">
      <div class="spacer">
        <h2>
          <a href="<?php echo $caturl ?>" title="<?php echo vmText::_($category->category_name) ?>">
          <?php echo vmText::_($category->category_name) ?>
          <br />
          <?php // if ($category->ids) {
            echo $category->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false);
          //} ?>
          </a>
        </h2>
      </div>
    </div>


If your template does not provide override you can make it by copy
/components/com_virtuemart/sublayouts/categories.php
and paste it to
/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_virtuemart/sublayouts/

[panoss]

I put it directly in the code, without override, works fine.

I just hoped that it could be done without changing the code (not even with an override).
I guess it can't be done in some other way.

Thank you for your help!

[Studio 42]

panoss, you cannot update virtuemart, or you loose your changes, it's why overide is better.

[panoss]

I didn't think of this, thanks, I'll make an override.