How can I override content category view to display subcategories as list items

Question

I'd like to override the category view to display subcategories as list items, my template uses bootstrap and I'd like to get a display similar to thumbnails: http://getbootstrap.com/components/#thumbnails

Any help please.

Answer 1

You can create your own layout file in /templates/your_template/html/com_content/category/default.php and show everything as you wish there. Or you can just override the part for the subcategories which should be the default_children.php file. That is assuming you want to override the default layout. If you want to override the blog one, change default to `blog.

Answer 2

From docs.joomla.org:

3 Component Output Types and Layout Overrides

3.1 Output Types

3.2 Layouts

3.3 Copying or Creating Layout Files

3.4 Overriding Sub-Layouts

http://docs.joomla.org/Understanding_Output_Overrides#Copying_or_Creating_Layout_Files