Subcategories Pagination

[sright]

Does Joomla lack the pagination of subcategories? This is an issue that I've been trying to solve..
(my question is not about articles ). I cant find a way in the back-end to add pagination to split a list of categories/subcategories into pages.

Loading a big list of subcategories is slow and takes alot from the server to handle it. So inorder to fix this issue it's important to have pagination

I would be so pleased to have help in that... Thanks alot in advance..

[sright]

how can i add jpagination to categories? i couldnt get the code to work.. can anybody explain exactly how?

[GPixels]

There are a ton of settings with Joomla 1.6 now for categories, articles, etc., and it comes with a bit of a learning curve. But to have a pagination for "categories" like [1] [2] [3]...etc. I don't think it can do that like it can for articles and intro posts within a category.

The only other solution that I can suggest is perhaps restructure your categories and subcategories (if you have a lot), into more nested versions and then with parameters on the menu item(s) that link to categories, control how many will show.

With my site (and also a test site), I have the subcategories set to not show and then for those, I have a separate menu for the side columns with only those menu items linking to the other categories.

[sright]

Thanks alot for your reply .. appreciate it

This is really a bad news for me .. I dont understand why this feature (Subcategories Pagination) is not included in Joomla's core files, It's hard for me to make a new restructure for menus on how to handle the categories/subcategories (big database) .. maybe you could explain more about that or give us an example..

I thought someone could offer a core-hack for that.. if any Joomla Dev can provide that, it would be so appreciated, and since my question has been viewed by more than 400 people..

It seems quite interesting for alot of people like me whose looking forward for a solution to this issue.

Thank you

[mcsmom]

Instead of a core hack you should think about creating a plugin. we will definitely need pagination for categories so you could propose that for 1.7.

[sright]

Thanks for the suggestion, you are absolutely right, a plugin could be a mean-while solution till we get Joomla 1.7 released..
But believe me, we've waited so long for Joomla 1.6, I'm one of the people who started building the website's database even before the final release came out. So it is a surprising issue for me (the lack of categories pagination) that until now I cant be sure if I can solve it by myself.

So again if any developer can produce a Joomla Plugin or Core-Hack for that it would be so appreciated.

Thank you.

[sright]

is Joomla 1.7 gonna solve this problem, will this feature be included in it? if not can we suggest adding it.. any idea?

[sright]

Please vote for the idea, if you are interested in having a way to make pagination possible for the categories and subcategories in the next Joomla release or so..

http://ideas.joomla.org/forums/84261-jo ... categories

Thanks alot