Title: Category Styling
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Category Styling

 *  [inzanem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inzanem/)
 * (@inzanem)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-styling/)
 * Hi,
    I need to make different style sheets for categories for my blog – I tried
   the lorelle method, whereby you add some php code to functions.php then use the
   category slug in wordpress back end to enable you to adjust the ‘post’ style 
   for each category. This works fine and allows some adjustment over posts. Although
   I think I need something else, something where I can possibly have different 
   versions of index.php and use that to style my categories.
 * This will possibly give me more control over styling RSS Feeds that are coming
   in from different sources.
 * Any Help would be great.
    thanks

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-styling/#post-1194007)
 * You might be better off looking at category templates.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates)
 *  Thread Starter [inzanem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inzanem/)
 * (@inzanem)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-styling/#post-1194008)
 * ..that looks hard to do.
 *  Thread Starter [inzanem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inzanem/)
 * (@inzanem)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-styling/#post-1194156)
 * Hi in fact I have looked at this before and spent quite a few hours with it. 
   I found this information to be not quite explanatory enough for me.
    It doesn’t
   explain how the category pages get picked up by index.php and it doesnt tell 
   me if and where to call the new style sheets up for those categories.
 * thanks
 *  Thread Starter [inzanem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inzanem/)
 * (@inzanem)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-styling/#post-1194159)
 * Yeah I looked at that tutorial agaian, quite vaugue in some respects, for instance
   I have a category file in my wordpress instalation, but the category.php file
   I have is in wp-admin. Should I copy that file to my ‘theme’ folder?
 * Other than that I copied index.php and changed its name to category_01.php This
   appears fine in my category section of wordpress – that is I can select it from
   the drop-down in ‘edit categories’ no problem, but it doesnt seem to do anything
   at all!?
 * Thanks, hopefully you can tell me what Im doing wrong!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-styling/#post-1194258)
 * > It doesn’t explain how the category pages get picked up by index.php
 * They’re ‘picked up’ if someone selects a category link – either in the list of
   categories for a given post or via a list of category links (wp_list-categories)
 * > and it doesnt tell me if and where to call the new style sheets up for those
   > categories.
 * The category templates use the same stylesheet as the rest of the theme.
 * > Should I copy that file to my ‘theme’ folder?
 * No. Edit the category.php file in your theme if your category listing needs changing
   in some way.
 * > Other than that I copied index.php and changed its name to category_01.php
 * Read the documentation again regarding naming category files.

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