One option — check out Template_Hierarchy. Scroll down and see the category section? You could create a category-3.php file in your theme that would get automagically picked up when that category is selected.
Actually, in looking more, this link is probably more useful to you Category_Templates
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greg54
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Hi – thanks for the link. Have read the Category Templates page but am still at a loss for how I get the page to load the right header. Suspect it might be some sort of “if / else” command? Basically what I want the site to do is use a different header when category 3 is picked – so where do I code an instruction to use header-3.php is category-3 is selected? Perhaps this is not the best way to do it?
Ok. Maybe this is more useful than the custom category approach. http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Category_Page
There is also a detailed description (and code!) in this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/30653?replies=16
(see also the links from there…)
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greg54
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Thank you both for the suggestions. Have been trying to work with these threads but, as a newcomer to php, with no success. I suspect my problem is pretty basic. Do I put some sort of code in the index.php page (where it calls for the header)? I tried this last night (i.e. some sort of “if cat=3, use header3.php” type of idea) but no luck – could have been bad code, or could have been a fruitless strategy to begin with.
I see the “is_category(‘6’)” guideline from the conditional tags but not sure:
1) where this goes? in index.php?
2) what follows to instruct it to get header6.php
Some of the other threads seem to end up dealing with new css for a particular category but that’s not what I’m trying to do (unless perhaps that’s the ultimate answer!)
Thanks
