Title: Category Templates
Author: MACscr
Published: <strong>July 23, 2009</strong>
Last modified: October 8, 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Category Templates

 By [MACscr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/macscr/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/category-templates.2.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-templates/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-templates/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-templates/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-templates/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-templates/)

## Description

Easily apply templates to your category archive pages and posts with this plugin.

Valid templates are files placed your theme folder with the following code at the
beginning of them:

For Post Templates: Template Name: Blog Template

For Archive Templates: Archive Template: Blog Template

Through this plugin’s options panel, you can choose which templates are applied 
to categories and posts. Even choose their priority over one another. You can even
apply a template to an individual post.
 Please [report any bugs](http://aarongloege.com/blog/web-development/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-plugin-category-templates/#respond)
you come across.

Enjoy!

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Category Template Selection
 * [[
 * Individual Post Template

## Installation

To Install:

 1. Download and unzip the contents of `category-template.zip`
 2. Upload the folder ‘category-template’ to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. Access the plug-in settings under the Appearance menu

## FAQ

None so far…

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Category Templates” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ MACscr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/macscr/)
 *   [ aarongloege ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aarongloege/)

[Translate “Category Templates” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/category-templates)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-templates/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/category-templates/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-templates/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-templates/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0

 * Added ability to apply templates to category archives

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8.4**
 * Tags
 * [category](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [template](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/template/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-templates/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ MACscr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/macscr/)
 *   [ aarongloege ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aarongloege/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-templates/)

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