Hi X,
If your front page shows your blogposts of all your categories then you want to exclude the posts in your funstuff category from that, by editing index.php
An example is found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category
Next, find the id of your category “funstuff” and remember the number.
You do that by going into Dashboard/Posts/Categories and in the list hover over the category title; the id is readable in the browsers bottom bar.
Now copy category.php within your themes folder and save it with the name category-10.php (if 10 is the id of funstuff).
Then comes the styling. Styling is done in your css but for this specific template (category-10.php) to have a different styling you need to make the div id’s and the classes specific.
So change <div id="container"> into <div id="container10">
Change <div class="post" into <div class="post10" etc etc
Next go into your style.css and copy the relevant blocks like container:
#container
{
background: #FFFFF2;
float: left;
width: 420px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 6px;
border-left: 1px solid #FF6600;
border-right: 1px solid #FF6600;
}
on an empty line below it with the name changed, like:
#container10
{
background: #FFFFF2;
float: left;
width: 420px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 6px;
border-left: 1px solid #FF6600;
border-right: 1px solid #FF6600;
}
etc etc
Now, for your funstuff category you can edit in these specific code blocs (with the 10 in their name) and that won’t affect the rest of yor site.
So, ok, a little php and some css, but for that there is a nice tool:
Get Firefox and then the free Firefox addon Firebug. You can then click anywhere in your site and see what piece of the css influences that piece of your site and you can even make changes but not save them, so it is safe to practice.
And, always backup your theme files before editing so you can rollback. Just use ftp to make a copy to your PC.
