Hey, I took a look at a number of themes and I noticed not a single one have Categories Dropdowns. Why is that? Attached is an image I designed and looking to implement in Dawn w/ the help of a theme developer. Ideally, when you press the “Update List” button, the list updates in real-time (no pag…

Hello @titus . I understand what you mean, but to me, what you want to do is typically an overkill. If you avec categories (tags), why not using the navigation to display them ? Simplicity is key. :slight_smile:

@Titus - here are a couple of my themes that provide navigation elements for tags or categories . . . [image] COM MicroChic's Official Blog https://vanilla.gwarp.com What you are asking for is not very difficult for most any Ghost theme developer.

[image] denvergeeks: MICROCHIC.COM [image] MICROCHIC.COM MicroChic’s Official Blog this is really weird but original to me, i love it, especially opening posts and how they are displayed. is this theme free?

@giacomosilli Thanks! For making that theme I bought the Blockster Theme on Creative Market and then modified it (a lot, as you can see!) The original Blockster Theme came with the neat isotope effect, and has lots of other built-in bells and whistles for making fun navigation bits. Pixel and Kraft…

Thanks for letting me discover this gallery. I really appreciate your changes, it is the version I prefer the most. I’m not sure why when you open a post you create an iframe of your own site to view it, however congratulations.

MicroChic is a perfect example and only theme I’ve seen to have this. What happened to the developers? They are not around anymore. :frowning:

@giacomosilli - can you describe a more preferable way (other than iframes) to pop up (or zoom forward) the page content on top of the index page and into the user’s focus? As you point out, I am currently using an iframe in a modal window to pop it up. I can also use a slide in, as demonstrated o…

@Titus I did make contact with them a couple of years ago, just after I purchased the Blockster theme, to ask them about updating it for compatibility with the current Ghost version at that time. They were very kind in response, but never followed through. So I updated it myself. I think they were j…

Yeah that would be a cool feature. Microchips site is like something out of Baldur’s Gate.

@Beric - Thanks Beric - I’m just getting started! Navigation on MicroChic’s Ghost blog will keep getting even more (as @giacomosilli called it) “weird” as time goes on!

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this is really weird but original to me, i love it, especially opening posts and how they are displayed. is this theme free?

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