category templates/themes help

  • slicky

    (@slicky)


    20 years, 8 months ago

    Hello All!
    New guy post here, so go easy on me..
    After searching and trying out (way too many) different CMS’s, this WordPress is something else! I love it! After digging around in all the docs. and forum posts and installing it, I knew this was for me. Smooth fast and clean and the options are endless, the community is awesome and SEO for WordPress is second to none. I have been actually excited about the huge undertaking ahead of me to transfer all my articles to WordPress from my existing (3 year old postnuke site) one by one :/
    Now on to my Q’s….. I love to design pages and themes, but I do this in an HTML editor. As far as php web page design goes, well……I have no idea. I have a great layout for my main page I would like to use but its in HTML. Is there something out there I can use to help me transfer it, or re-design in php?
    I also want to make my category templates different from my main layout. I have read through the http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates but don’t understand how this works.
    If I make a category-2.php template, isn’t the code feeding off the main css, header and footer of the sites existing template therefore no changes occur? I would like these category pages to have their own header, footer and css’s. I cant seem to find info on this.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks

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  • Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    You can use Conditional_Tags to dynamically load different headers, footers, and sidebars. As far as CSS, I would simply create category specific divs and classes for those pages, and include the style in the main style sheet.

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