Community Suggestion: Enhance useage of categories as a page index with additional settings
Enhance useage of categories as a page index with additional settings
User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · World presentation layer · Created by Glodarin
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
I use the world page mainly as a Wiki, where my player can look up articls. To better find articles, I used categories. They are serving as the page index for the player to "quickly" find the info they need. The issue is, the index always collapes after returning from an article. That makes "browsing" quite difficult and feels annoing. I have the feeling it always "prevents" my player from looking stuff up. Also with a little more extention of the index, it would be easier to find the correct article.How does this feature request address the current situation?
I see the point in not having everything open at once, but it would be great if I had the choise to do so, if I wanted. I'm suggesting a default-setting for a category. The setting could be set to "allways collapsed" or "always extended". A third option, to keep the last user state, would also be a very nice addition.The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We have something in the long-term pipeline that will make this easier. In the meantime, we suggest using breadcrumbs in every article; more information at the bottom of this page: https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/bbcode-tutorials/toc. You can add it to the Global Article Introduction field so it appears in every single article; here's how: https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/world/global-content-fields.
Current score
12/300 Votes · +1805 points
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+1
by Jupiter Melichios
on 2026-04-24 20:01 -
+1
by WeStanNikolai
on 2026-04-24 14:26 -
+300
by Lonnie makes mayhem
on 2026-04-21 17:46 -
+300
by BurningGod
on 2026-04-21 00:07 -
+300
by eberg
on 2026-04-17 19:51 -
+100
by MPvDgamer
on 2026-04-17 09:12 -
+100
by kalilinai
on 2026-04-12 02:17 -
+1
by FictionFan1995
on 2026-04-10 18:14 -
+1
by Mahdi Avendesora
on 2026-04-10 16:28 -
+300
by Exarx
on 2026-04-10 07:20 -
+1
by Those2Nerds
on 2026-04-08 15:51I support adding more navigation tools, but I also think this problem can already be resolved in other, simpler ways. Breadcrumbs in a global field makes it easy to browse parent categories. Linear navigation, related article lists, and in-article links make it easy to go directly to the next article. Even opening articles in a new tab makes it so you don't have to constantly reload the same category page.
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+100
by ss2020
on 2026-04-08 15:24 -
+300
by Glodarin
on 2026-04-07 19:00
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