fof / categories
Traditional Category Layout for Flarum
Package info
github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/categories
Language:TypeScript
Type:flarum-extension
pkg:composer/fof/categories
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Requires
- flarum/core: ^2.0.0
- flarum/tags: ^2.0.0
Requires (Dev)
- flarum/audit: ^2.0.0
- flarum/flags: ^2.0.0
- flarum/gdpr: ^2.0.1
- flarum/phpstan: ^2.0.0
- flarum/realtime: ^2.0.0
- flarum/testing: ^2.0
- fof/forum-widgets-core: ^2.0.2
Suggests
None
Provides
None
Conflicts
None
Replaces
This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2026-10-23 09:36:51 UTC
README
A Flarum extension. Traditional category layout for Flarum.
Desktop
Mobile
Installation
Install with composer:
composer require fof/categories:"*"
Updating
composer update fof/categories php flarum migrate php flarum cache:clear
Post counts
Each category shows how many posts it has. The count leaves out hidden and private discussions, like the discussion count next to it, and is kept up to date as posts are made, hidden, restored and deleted.
The posts already on your forum are counted once, during php flarum migrate. To count them again, for example after importing discussions directly into the database, run:
php flarum fof:categories:recount
It reads every tagged discussion, so on a very large forum it can take a little while; two million discussions took about four seconds in testing.
If Optimize for small forums is enabled in the extension's settings, the counts are worked out live for each visitor instead, which gets slower as the forum grows.
Links
An extension by FriendsOfFlarum.