Title: Make all categories “inactive”
Last modified: December 9, 2021

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# Make all categories “inactive”

 *  Resolved [meesterjelnl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meesterjelnl/)
 * (@meesterjelnl)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-all-categories-inactive/)
 * Dear all,
 * I’m using Link Library for an educational website. To sum up a few website to
   practice subjects. The thing works amazing.
    However, I would like an option 
   to make all categories go passive. Still visible, but inactive. When you visit
   my websites “websites” page you’ll see all categories are active at first. You
   would have to uncheck all the categories to get to 1 active category. But if 
   there was a button or something…?
 * Is there a way to do this?
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by [meesterjelnl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meesterjelnl/).
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-all-categories-inactive/#post-15155955)
 * To be clear, are you looking to only have one active category at the top of the
   page and to see the link from that single category? Or to have no links displayed
   and no active categories?
 *  Thread Starter [meesterjelnl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meesterjelnl/)
 * (@meesterjelnl)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-all-categories-inactive/#post-15155968)
 * Thanks for replying Yannick, you are always so quick!
 * I would like an option to “clear all” active categories. After that a person 
   can single out his own category as active.
    So in my example… people would be
   able to click a button to make all categories passive and then click on the “
   math” category to only see math-websites. Still above are the other categories,
   but they are passive.
 * I think this would still be elegant, fast and you don’t need to make a lot of
   different pages/menu’s etc. Or am I wrong?
 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-all-categories-inactive/#post-15211033)
 * I am working on version 7.3 and have included the feature you requested here.
   That being said, I have not released the new version since I’ve made some changes
   for which I’d like to get some beta tester feedback.
 * You can download the beta version here: [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/link-library.7.3.0.Beta3.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/link-library.7.3.0.Beta3.zip)
 * Once downloaded, replace the version on your server with this new version.
 * Then:
 * – Confirm that your library works like it did before
    – Go to the Categories 
   tab of your Library Configuration and change the Link Categories Display Format
   from “Visibility Toggles” to “Visibility Toggles with Show/Hide All buttons”.
   This will add two extra items at the end of the list of toggles to hide all or
   show all.
 * Looking forward to your feedback. If you haven’t done so before, please consider
   donating to support this plugin’s development.
 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-all-categories-inactive/#post-15211107)
 * I forgot to mention that you will need to make some changes to the Stylesheet
   Editor section of the plugin.
 * I modified the cattoggle and catactive sections as shown below. More precisely,
   I added two additional selectors to each item, and I also added the cursor rule
   in the first section:
 *     ```
       .cattoggle, .cattogglehideall, .cattoggleshowall {
       	margin: 10px;
       	padding: 10px;
       	float: left;
       	border-radius: 5px;
       	cursor: pointer;
       }
   
       .catactive, .cattogglehideall, .cattoggleshowall {
       	background-color: #228B22;
       	color: #FFF;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-all-categories-inactive/#post-15293473)
 * Version 7.3 has been officially release this past week-end. Let me know if this
   functionality works as expected after you upgrade and please consider donating
   to support this plugin’s development.

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 * Last reply from: [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-all-categories-inactive/#post-15293473)
 * Status: resolved