Title: Categories
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Categories

 *  [evandroliveira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evandroliveira/)
 * (@evandroliveira)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-5-2/)
 * Hello There…
 * I wanna know something..
 * For example… If I wanna create a personalized template for some subpage, I gotta
   create that and name it category-2.php … than I put a link to category-2.php 
   to go to this page…
 * But if I label each link of my menu as a category…
    then category-1.php(to show
   contents of the link mathematic)… category-2.php.(to show contents of the link
   chemistry)..category-3.php. and so on.. I’ll have too many categories file at
   the same directory… I Think there’s not another way to call these pages without
   naming it category-(a number).php..
 * all these files categories are at the same folder…(the root folder of my theme)
   and I wanna know if is it possible to create a folder for this categories putting
   them there..
 * Because actually.. I just can use these categories file.. if they are in the 
   root folder of my theme.. if I put these files inside a folder called “mathematic”..
   and another categories file inside a folder “chemistry” I can’t use these files..
 * I don’t know if I’m being clear, english isn’t my language…..But if you can..
   help me with this thing..
 * thank you..

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-5-2/#post-607700)
 * There is nothing wrong with your English.
    However – **everything is wrong** 
   with your thinking.
 * You should be careful when using the word “page”. [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)
   are something special in WordPress, so better don’t use it if you are talking
   about categories.
    _ For example… If I wanna create a personalized template for
   some subpage,  – then create Page templates > see the link above
 * _I gotta create that and name it category-2.php … _
    – that’s a category template(
   see: [Category_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates)) and
   cannot be used with Pages or subPages.
 * _than I put a link to category-2.php to go to this page…_
    – wrong! You can never
   link directly to any template file!
 * So, don’t tell me **how** do you want to do things (obviously, that’s not working!)
   
   Tell us **what** do you want to do, what is the end-result you want – and we 
   will tell you how to do it. OK?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-5-2/#post-607700)
 * Status: not resolved

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