I hope in new release of wordpress, it will allow me to choose template and set order for a Category, just like I did for a Page.
You could just make a template page for that category. category-slug.php will automatically format the category page for that cat.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
Ahh, That is great, thanks Ipstenu.
But if I am a theme developper, I don’t know the category slug and id when I am developping a theme.
For example, a site may needs 2 news category, talking about different topic, but they need the same layout. Then I must copy the same template to category-news0.php and category-news1.php.
Really don’t understand why they make Page type different, and allow it choose template, why not category and post?
But if I am a theme developper, I don’t know the category slug and id when I am developping a theme.
Thats a different matter. I would say use a theme setting type tool to assign templates to categories, but that’s not my forte.
WP 3.1 will introduce post_formats which might make this a little easier.
Another option might be to build a them options page that allows users to assign category ids to specific pre-written category template files which can then be called via get_template_part.
