Hiding subcategories of a particular category on the homepage

[geek]

Hi guys,

I would like to hide the subcategories of a particular category on the main page (there are many subcategories and the list is long).

Is there a way to do this in NodeBB?

Thanks,
Josh

[pichalite]

@geek not without modifying code.

You can turn off subcategories for all categories but if you only need to turn off for one then you will have to modify code.

[geek]

@pichalite Hmm, is there a way to hide a particular category by modifying the template file?

Here's what I'm doing now, but I was wondering if there is a better way:
$('.categories li div:has(h2 a[href$="CATEGORY-NAME"]) .category-children').addClass("hidden");

[yariplus]

It would be faster as a CSS rule using the category id, but no better way I know of.

li[component="categories/category"][data-cid="33"] .category-children {
  display: none;
}

[pichalite]

@geek NodeBB's template engine can only do true/false and 0/1 checks. You can't do other validations. So, you will have to modify core to achieve that.

If you are OK modifying core then this is the line you want to add the category id check to

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/modules/helpers.js#L106

[baris]

Hiding it with css seems to be the best option here @yariplus has already given the necessary css.