Category Archives- Two Columns, Formatted?

Twenty Ten has a category.php for the catgory archive pages;

you could achieve a two-column layout without editing category.php, just by adding some filter for the post_class() into functions.php of your theme, and by adding some css to format the columns.

however, to integrate what looks like the ‘featured image’ aka post thumbnail, you need to edit loop.php which gets called by category.php.

as you said ‘customized version’ please start by pasting the full code of loop.php into a http://pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here – http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code

this section is edited:

<?php /* How to display all other posts. */ ?>

        <?php else : ?>
<?php $alt_class = is_category()?($wp_query->current_post%2?array('half-width','even'):array('half-width','odd')):''; //generate css classes for 2-column category archive// ?>
                <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class( $alt_class ); ?>>

and this section:

<?php if( is_category() ) {
the_post_thumbnail(); //add the featured image into category archive; otherwise show postmeta//
} else { ?>
                        <div class="entry-meta">
                                <?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?>
                        </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
<?php } ?>

here is the full loop.php:

http://pastebin.com/THQZ5aYQ

minimal needed css:

.half-width { width: 48%; float: left; }
.half-width.odd { clear:left; margin-right: 3%; }

might need fine adjustment of the thumbnail size etc.