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1. anithegregorian
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have done templating for different categories in WP ie. If I have a categoryID - 18 and I want to display the contents of this category differently than all other generic categories then I can create category-18.php write some code in it and thats it! I have a custom template for categoryID 18, but what about archive pages? Can I create a separate theme for categoryID 18's archive page? Ive tried using archive-18.php which was a hunch that turned out to be a FIASCO :)

   Or Is it the good old way of putting a conditional block in PHP check for categories and render them from there, another hunch...

2. Michael Fields
   Theme Wrangler
   Posted 3 years ago #

   As far as my understanding if template hierarchy goes, category-18.php should override the need for a file such as archive-18.php. Check out the chart. See category-x.php will be called instead of archive.php for all "category archive" views where the category queried is equal to x.

   Perhaps I am not understanding your question, would you like to change the display of certain posts on say a month or year archive view? If so, you want to look into using Conditional Tags in the loop inyou archive.php file.

   Hope this is helpful.

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