Title: Category template issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Category template issue

 *  [imns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imns/)
 * (@imns)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-template-issue-1/)
 * Hello,
 * I have a template category on my blog, with child categories, blue, red, green
   and so on under the template category.
 * I would like to create a category template that will be used whether you are 
   on the parent theme category or one of it’s child categories. I’ve tried using
   category-template.php, but that will not work for the child categories.
 * How should I go about achieving this? Is it possible with a custom categories
   template, a custom post type and custom taxonomy, or something else? I am open
   to suggestion, but what I don’t want to do is create a desperate template file
   for each on of my categories. I would like to keep it as DRY as possible.
 * Any suggestions or advice would appreciated.
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [imns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imns/)
 * (@imns)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-template-issue-1/#post-1603678)
 * bump

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 * [custom post type](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-post-type/)

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