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  • wrote on last edited by Panda
    #1

    Continuing my Widgets struggle here as although I asked about it on NodeBB forum, I still have remaining areas of confusion.
    I dont find the menu intuitive. In particular now Ive understood that the global .tpl will apply everywhere, are these Category / Topic settings irrelevant?
    20230526_163355~2.jpg

    Excuse the blurry photo, but what is the point of that
    Category 0
    Topic 0
    If its going to apply globally anyway?

  • Continuing my Widgets struggle here as although I asked about it on NodeBB forum, I still have remaining areas of confusion.
    I dont find the menu intuitive. In particular now Ive understood that the global .tpl will apply everywhere, are these Category / Topic settings irrelevant?
    20230526_163355~2.jpg

    Excuse the blurry photo, but what is the point of that
    Category 0
    Topic 0
    If its going to apply globally anyway?

    wrote on last edited by phenomlab
    #2

    @Panda is there any reason not to include a screenshot rather than a photo of the screen? It’s a bit hard to decipher a blurry image 🙂

  • wrote on last edited by Panda
    #3

    Apologies, was having technical difficulties with laptop with no PrtSrn button!
    widget.png

    Update
    There are tpl files for category and categories
    It seems this field works under category.tpl and not categories.tpl

    Im confused what the categories.tpl is for, but the category.tpl is working now, so problem solved

  • Panda Panda has marked this topic as solved on
  • Apologies, was having technical difficulties with laptop with no PrtSrn button!
    widget.png

    Update
    There are tpl files for category and categories
    It seems this field works under category.tpl and not categories.tpl

    Im confused what the categories.tpl is for, but the category.tpl is working now, so problem solved

    wrote on last edited by
    #4

    @Panda category is for a category in its own, so for example, “fruit” whereas categories is the page that contains all categories as a list.


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