Title: Category (archive) view
Last modified: October 26, 2017

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# Category (archive) view

 *  Resolved [port80services](https://wordpress.org/support/users/port80services/)
 * (@port80services)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-archive-view/)
 * Hi there. First off, many thanks for this excellent plugin. Right out of the 
   box it does practically everything I need and is highly customisable.
 * I just need advice on one aspect. I have links to view testimonials by particular
   category. This is easy enough – I just taking the category slug (/testimonial-
   category/*CATEGORY-NAME*/).
 * My issue is that the link opens a page that uses the standard WP archive template.
   So while my main testimonial page uses all my css styling and has the name/details
   of the person who gave the quote, the category lists do not. Is there any way
   I can have my default testimonial view I have set up apply to archive (indivdual
   category) view too? Thanks!

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 *  anonymized-13171256
 * (@anonymized-13171256)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-archive-view/#post-9626483)
 * Thanks. I’m glad to hear it’s working well so far.
 * This may not be what you want to hear but the best approach is to customize your
   theme. You can create, or hire someone to create, custom templates for individual
   testimonials and the category archive.
 * The second best option may be to forgo the built-in category permalink structure
   and create (child) pages for each category and a view for each category.
 * Why? Because WordPress expects themes to control the display and plugins to provide
   functionality. So plugins are limited in how far they can reach into themes for
   inherent mechanisms like archive pages, which is why the plugin has to include
   its own templates.
 * That said, I am experimenting with supplanting that process but it’s been problematic
   so far (and not fun) because it’s forcing WordPress to so something it was not
   designed to do.
 *  Thread Starter [port80services](https://wordpress.org/support/users/port80services/)
 * (@port80services)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-archive-view/#post-9626537)
 * Hi Chris
 * Thanks v much for the prompt reply. I ended up going down the child pages route.
   It’s not 100% ideal but certainly the easiest solution.
 * Thx again.
 *  Anonymous User 15250415
 * (@anonymized-15250415)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-archive-view/#post-10080269)
 * Hey there I have a question about this exact same problem – thanks for the explanation
   above really appreciated!
 * I am thinking of going down the route of creating child pages for the categories
   so I can creaate views and style the testimonials. Does this mean I just need
   to redirect the original category archive page to my new page? Is it as simple
   as that?
 * Sorry if I’ve missed a trick..!
 * I refer to: “The second best option may be to forgo the built-in category permalink
   structure and create (child) pages for each category and a view for each category.”
 *  anonymized-13171256
 * (@anonymized-13171256)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-archive-view/#post-10081026)
 * If you have displayed the URL somewhere and it’s already getting traffic, then
   redirect.
 * The child page approach does not _replace_ the category archive in WordPress 
   internally, it simply mimics the URL structure.
 * If you prefer a purist approach, I can provide some code to disable the category
   permalinks so there will be only one true version of the category page.
 *  Anonymous User 15250415
 * (@anonymized-15250415)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-archive-view/#post-10081435)
 * Understood, thanks all sorted 🙂 I love the plugin it has been super useful and
   the support was very fast, thanks!

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-archive-view/#post-10081435)
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