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I’m hoping this is an easy question, but not so sure?
I’ve bee trying to display categories in columns (easy), and also alphabetically by column from top to bottom like a phone book layout (not so easy).

Here’s what I currently have:

{exp:channel:categories channel="resources" parent_only="yes" style="linear"}
    
    <div class="one-fourth directory">
    <a href="http://{path=resources}">{category_name}</a>
    
    (
    {exp:query sql="
     SELECT 
      COUNT(entry_id) AS total_entry_count
     FROM
      <SQL_Entry>
     WHERE
      cat_id = {category_id}
    "} 

     {total_entry_count}

    {/exp:query})
    
    </div>
    
 {/exp:channel:categories}

While this sort of works, it will display the items in alphabetical order from left to right (rows) and not top to bottom (columns), which is expected.
I tried the “Splitter” plugin but it didn’t work for me and the same results were produced.

If you know of a way your help is greatly appreciated!

Hi sparky,

Have a look at this plugin:

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/gwcode-categories

This should help simplify things for you.

Cheers,

Mike