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Motivation

WordPress offers comprehensive tools for tailoring your content. Categories, for one, allow a reader to focus on content most relevant to him. However, the current category behavior has several shortcomings:

• Requires expertise from the reader (he can't access a "ready-made" blog for his topic)
• Cannot search within a category (or filter by tag, date etc.). This can be referenced in short as no closure.
• Hard to get the RSS feed within a category
• Cannot change blog title when browsing a specific category (to create a look & feel of a dedicated blog)

An alternative approach, opening several separate blogs has other shortcomings:

• Inability to aggregate several topics together
• No single identity for author / subscriber
• No easy exploration of other content offered by same author

Category Sub-Blogs

The solution offered in this plugin is to treat categories as separate sub-blogs. This consists of the following aspects:

1. Offer closure while browsing a category: All filtering actions (e.g. searching, filtering by date or tag) only access posts within the currently selected category.
2. Following a link from outside automatically selects the relevant category.
3. RSS feeds & The blog name change for different category selections.

Specialized Templates

In order to enhance the look-and-feel of separate sub-blogs, it is advisable to use custom themes for your categories. Luckily, this is already a built-in feature in wordress. Read this.

Author: shmichael