Is anyone else's categories being cut off on your home page?

Hello. I just noticed tonight that some of my categories are no longer showing all of the text. I see some periods after a few of the categories for the categories that have more text than others.

Is this happening to anyone else? If not, then do you see what I am seeing with my categories?

Or maybe it was already like this and I just did not notice it before…

Thanks,

Sharon

asked over 8 years ago

1 Answer

It is happening, when the category name is very long, e.g. over 32 characters.

Then 32 letters are shown on the front page and the rest as 3 dots, and when You click on that category and enter its page, it shows 30 characters and 3 dots on the left barre.

So, if You want to have all title visible make it up to 30 characters.

When the category titles get too long, they run onto 3 lines and it doesn’t look well.
As a rule of thumb, category names should be between 2 and 26 characters, the actual length depends on each site.

answered over 8 years ago

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EmpressDepot says: February 18, 2017

Thank you, Artist.

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