Comments on: Force Category Template

By: pushpinder bagga

pushpinder bagga — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:46:39 +0000

Thanks Mark. This helped a lot!

Thanks a ton!

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:48:41 +0000

Put the category-x.php file in your theme folder.

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:48:07 +0000

I spent an hour looking for a plugin to do what yours does. All I need is for 1 specific category to list its posts in more of a list format instead of its default blog format — and this does this perfectly, thank you.

By: filmizleseyret

filmizleseyret — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:44:50 +0000

I’m pretty sure this is a silly question …but still… In which directory do the category-X.php files go?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:34:39 +0000

I spent the best part of an afternoon tryling to work htis out!

Thanks for the great plug-in.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:03:37 +0000

I’ve been struggling with getting the campaigns the way I want them to, thanks for this.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:37:27 +0000

Replace
if ( !is_single() || is_404() ) return; // we only care about single posts

with
if ( !is_category() || is_404() || is_feed() ) return; // we only care about category views

otherwise it prevents category rss feeds from working correctly.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:25:21 +0000

ok. sorry, I admit it. it WAS a silly question. they go into the directory oft theme in use…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:55:24 +0000

I’m pretty sure this is a silly question …but still… In which directory do the category-X.php files go?

thx for your help!

By: George Huger

George Huger — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:16:27 +0000

Thanks for the plugin, it did exactly what I needed with no hassle.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:40:01 +0000

Best WordPress plugin I’ve seen all year. Thanks a million, this does EXACTLY what I’ve been looking to do!!!

By: Thunder

Thunder — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:44:51 +0000

Hi dood i have little problems , build simple blog for new car bla bla … all category on my site preset one seperation blog (wp-admin/settings/Prermalinks/ Custom Structure : /mark/%category%/%postname%.html and Category base: mark/ ) problem is a script no work on this , scipt lock ID for link line $post->ID (script work ok on classic wp permalink http://localhost/?cat=100 ) don’t work on this http://localhost/mark/ford

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:19:33 +0000

This plugin allows a forced category template when the single post is clicked. However, just realized I’m not getting the same wonderful result when I try to access the post from a TAG link.

Any suggestions on how to get it to function the same way using TAGS?

Thanks again,

Jim

By: rob cain

rob cain — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:44:50 +0000

thanks for this, i was just about to write one.

however, what of the case where a post belongs to multiple categories?

the question of where and how page template transforms should be decided – we can only say ‘it is decided in context’ or by use-case.

in all cases however we can retain the concept of ‘current category’ – logically we should have a ‘view post in categories…’ view selector on each post; to be complete, also an ‘edit post in category view’ for authors.

‘current category’ could be set up as a stack of nested ‘category_event’ loops.

this plug-in here might help http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2005/10/27/highlight-current-category/

but i think we might really need something like a push_current_category, and pop_current_category to allow developer to effectively code-up the user experience.

anyone know of anything?

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:36:24 +0000

After googling everywhere for a solution to this, finally found your plugin. This is a Godsend.

After spending a long time to bifurcate my site’s look and feel into 2 category templates, I was so disappointed to find out that single posts didn’t retain their category template. One would think that WordPress post links within Archives would automatically call-up a specific category template if one had been setup. I’m not a big fan of plugins either . . . but this really solved the problem.

Thanks again, Mark. I just made a small donation.

Jim