Is there any Template Hierarchy structure for the archive page?
I have a category page set up here: http://fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/category/sermons
and would like to have a slightly customized archive page for the individual posts, within this category.
Thanks!
Posted 4 years ago #
You mean on the category archives page? Sure, that's easy. You can just create a new category template for whatever categories you want.
For example, if your sermons category's ID is 8, then you just create a category page template called category-8.php. Put this commented code at the top so WP recognizes it as a custom Page template:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Sermons
*/
Posted 4 years ago #
As joni mentioned, you can create a category template for a specific category. See here for more:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
Note that a template for a category and one used as a Page template should be managed separately. You can do as joni describes above to have WordPress recognize say category-8.php as a Page template as well, but when assigned as a Page template it will not behave as you may expect (that is, displaying posts from category 8).
Thanks Joni and Kaf, I think that's what I have now. http://fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/category/sermons loads 1-archives.php category page, which over-rides the archive.php.
The question I had... was when you click on the individual post, (I guess that would be a single post, or perhaps a single archive posts) it defaults back to the archive.php, and loses my defined dynamic sidebar, which I set in the category-1.php.
Will I need to set up a conditional tag in the archive file to load this dynamic sidebar for category 1 entries? Or, is there a "hierarchy" that covers the single posts (or would this be considered a single archive post?).
You need to re-read the Template_Hierarchy article.
a) archive1.php - is not a recognizable template file for your monthly or category archives/listing
b) for different category archives you need category-XX.php files, where XX is the cat ID#
c) single posts are displayed by single.php template file (or, if missing, whatever comes next according to Template_Hierarchy)
d) Different single layout: http://guff.szub.net/2005/07/21/post-templates-by-category/
(a plugin)
I found a great idea on Lorelle's page which works very well. I tried using Kaf's plugin; but had problems getting it to work properly.
btw, the template hierarchy article is really very helpful!
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