Comments on: Template – Frequently Asked Questions

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:21:10 +0000

It's done with the category description field within a category.php template file. Check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/category_description for examples.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:47:33 +0000

Hey, I would like to obtain something similar to what you have here: http://idealienstudios.com/projects/ice/
I don’t know if this is a category page, but what I need for my blog is to have a different explanatory text for to each category archive of my blog. Here you have the short text at the beginning ” Idealien Category Enhancements…” styled the same as the posts that follow it. Maybe this is not done with your plugin, but I’d appreciate a reply.
Thanks a lot.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:21:04 +0000

Thanks for the praise Sarah. Need more info to be able to offer any help to resolve your issue:

What version of WP do you have it installed on? It works with 2.9.2 and below currently with no issues.
Have you tried it (temporarily) with all other plugins turned off?
What (if any) other plugins do you have installed that relate to categories or themes or templates?

By: Sarah K

Sarah K — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:36:18 +0000

Awesome plugin! Working great, except for one little (and slightly annoying) glitch.

The plugin works wonderfully when I select a template while creating a new category, but doesn’t if I go into the “Edit” page of a pre-existing category. It allows me to select the template from the drop-down menu, but when I click save it doesn’t save it. This has lead me to having to re-create any of the categories I already had (including sub-categories) in order to get the templates to apply.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:14:53 +0000

No – for that you would have to modify the presentation in either home.php, index.php or the specific page template you have assigned to your home page within WordPress.

By: Maxmyd

Maxmyd — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:50:13 +0000

Hi.
I have created custom template for certain category. When I step into that category, I can see changes there. But posts from that category on home page still look the same as other posts. Is that possible for those posts on main page also to have a custom look?
Thank you

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:19:35 +0000

@her - From your description, I'd recommend you watch the video from this post which covers the steps you're missing. You need to have a modified category selected through the posts > category menu applied to your category in order for a specific post template to take effect. If you want non-category based post customization, you might want to try Nathan Rice's Single Post Template Plugin.

By: her

her — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:43:17 +0000

the newly create category (in my case Category_sales) doesn´t pick up the salessingle.php.

I want to create a series of landing pages (posts) that use another theme (a simple one without the sidebars, footers ect). I copied the single.php file from that theme (has more files like .css, index, etc), renamed it to singlesales.php and copied it to the standard theme directory where also the single.php file is.

In the new category (sales) I selected the singlesales.php theme, but when generating a new post in that category it still seems to pick the single.php (as I don´t see any changes in the resulting post layout ). Do I have to copy other files (like style.css, or index files and rename these as well)……??????

Any idea how to do this?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:18:16 +0000

The methods that standard category templates can use to include sidebar widgets are respected through this plugin. It does not have anything to do with pages though.

By: stan

stan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:44:58 +0000

does this also provide flexibility for choosing to include side bar widgets or creating full pages?