Hierarchical list
Last updated: 14 November 2022The Hierarchical list block is DOCman's default block for displaying documents in your WordPress site. This block provides a category hierarchy for your users to navigate on while browsing for documents inside DOCman.
Category
The category filter lets you select the root category for the documents list.
Note: If you leave this unselected, DOCman will use the documents root category as the parent category for the documents list in this block.
Layouts
Table
Display a list of categories and documents in a compact table. Try the hierarchical table layout on our demo.
List
Display a list of categories and documents with descriptions. Try the hierarchical list layout on our demo.
Gallery
Display a gallery of categories and documents in an image gallery. Try the hierarchical gallery layout on our demo.
Options
DOCman comes with lots of options to customize its look & feel.
Document Options
The set of available options differs depending on the layout that is selected in the block configuration.
Table layout
List layout
Gallery layout
Category Options
Shortcodes
We also support shortcodes for this block type. You can visit our Hierarchical list block shortcodes guide for learning more on how to add this block outside the Gutenberg editor.