http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:08:45 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-custom-category-template#post-18841 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:54:02 +0000 helgatheviking 18841@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>i answered darrenc's question about category specific targeting on his thread:</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-code-on-different-category-archives-conceptual-problem-narrow-target#post-18840" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-code-on-different-category-archives-conceptual-problem-narrow-target#post-18840</a></p> <p>if you want to change some of the standard thematic elements that will be the way to go. if you want to drastically alter the markup then you could indeed create a new category template (category-bacon.php for example). See more on the Wordpress Template Hierarchy:</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-custom-category-template#post-18837 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:23:11 +0000 darrenc 18837@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>if you just wanted to handle it in your css, you'd do something like this:</p> <pre>.category-yourCategorySlugHere .entry-meta { display:none; }</pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-custom-category-template#post-18834 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:22:10 +0000 Mike_sa 18834@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I am wanting to create a custom category layout for a specific category. </p> <p>I should be fine with creating the modified function, I am just not sure how to call this for a specific category, leaving the other categories that I have as the standard default. </p> <p>I am wanting on the custom category to have the author ect removed, just the post title and excerpt. </p> <p>Do templates for categories work the same as page and posts, using the slug ie. page-slug(test0.php post-slug(test).php. If the category was projects the catergory slug if it works for categories would be category-projects.php, Wordpress would use this file automatically if I called the category for projects to be displayed. </p> <p>Thanks very much for any help or advice :) </p>