Aug.04.2007
How to manipulate category templates
- Filed under: Tutorials
One of my favorite WordPress template features is the ability to customize category templates to cater specific categories of your choice.
Here’s my default category template. It simply displays excerpts:
Here’s my customize category template for category ID #2. This one is actually a theme gallery template:
So, how do you manipulate category templates? Simple, duplicate your default
category.php
template (or
archive.php
in some cases), add a hyphen and a number to the name of the new file. For example:
category-2.php
. Then, start customizing the template for the new file.
The number attached to the file name should be the ID of the category that you want to target.
I don’t know if i’m just really tired, or not… but I’m confused as to what you would use this for, and how exactly you implement it. Please excuse my ignorance
Be default, you can use category.php as a template for all categories. To customize specific categories, you should create category-#.php files according to the ID of those categories that you want to customize for. The customizations go in the category-#.php file.
Very good! I guess this way you can also add a single post to appear at the top of a single category…
Wow,
I can see how that would be really useful. I honestly had no idea i could do that. Thanks a lot
This is really great and useful. Is this available through single page? Something like single-#.php?
I don’t think it is.
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Sounds like a good idea, but I tried it - did not work hmm
don’t know if i’m just really tired, or not…
how does this work for themes that use the archive.php instead of category.php? I made an archive-18.php and it did not work for category 18. Please advise.
Also - can you please install the subscribe to comments plugin for wpdesigner.com? That’s a plugin every blog should have so you get notified when your comments are replied to.
thx!
Using category.php simply mean you’re being more specific. Without the presence of category.php, your blog uses archive.php as the default for all archive pages, including category archive pages.
create a category-18.php template
I named the file category-18.php (even though my theme uses archive.php instead of category.php) and it worked fine!
Hey,
Is there a way to make this work for all sub categories as well without having to create new files for each sub category id?
For instance:
Video Category
— City Video Category
— State Video Category
I am trying to style them all the same, but when I create new category as a sub category, I have to create a file for it.
Thanks,
Mike
i don’t know
ok. If I find out, I’ll be sure to post here
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