Title: Category using page.php template
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Category using page.php template

 *  [jxtgroup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jxtgroup/)
 * (@jxtgroup)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-using-pagephp-template/)
 * Hi,
 * I am running WordPress Multisite and for some reason my category page is using
   the template of page.php
 * I tried creating a new file called category-news.php (news is the slug), but 
   it is not using that template or the standard category.php/archive.php
 * Any ideas where I can look to see how this is happening?

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 *  Thread Starter [jxtgroup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jxtgroup/)
 * (@jxtgroup)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-using-pagephp-template/#post-2129988)
 * It seems that my theme is not recognizing the category-news.php file. How can
   I make the theme load this file?

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [page template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page-template/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-using-pagephp-template/#post-2129988)
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