Title: category.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# category.php

 *  [twimiamedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twimiamedia/)
 * (@twimiamedia)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categoryphp-1/)
 * Greetings,
 * We’re currently making our own WordPress Theme and its been too long ago to remember
   how the loop worked for the category page. We currently have this buggy **category.
   php**:
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       get_header();
   
       if (have_posts()) : the_post(); update_post_caches($posts);
   
       echo '<div class="fullwidth">'."\n";
       echo '<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr>'."\n";
       echo '<td><h3>Posts in '. single_cat_title("", false) .'</h3></td>'."\n";
       echo '</tr></table></div>'."\n";
       echo '<div class="fullwidth">'."\n";
       echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr>'."\n";
       echo '<td class="normal"><b style="color: black">Title</b></td>'."\n";
       echo '<td class="normal"><b style="color: black">By</b></td>'."\n";
       echo '<td class="normal"><b style="color: black">Date</b></td>'."\n";
       echo '</tr><tr>'."\n";
   
       echo '<td class=normal>'. single_post_title('prefix', display) .'</td>'."\n";
       echo '<td class=normal nowrap>'. the_author_link() .'</td>'."\n";
       echo '<td class=normal nowrap>'. the_date() .''. the_time() .'</td>'."\n";
   
       echo '</tr></table></div>'."\n";
   
       else :
         _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.');
       endif;
   
       get_footer();
   
       ?>
       ```
   
 * But, it doesn’t display anything except this: [](http://i44.tinypic.com/aaaxcp.png)
 * Now we know we’re its missing a loop. Any little example will be appreciated 
   since we can’t find anything about it in the documentary.
 * Kind regards,
    Twimia Media

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 *  Thread Starter [twimiamedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twimiamedia/)
 * (@twimiamedia)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categoryphp-1/#post-1051034)
 * The last text in my previous message became a full link. We’re sorry about this.
   Here’s the screenshot: [http://i44.tinypic.com/aaaxcp.png](http://i44.tinypic.com/aaaxcp.png)
 * Kind regards,
    Twimia Media

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 * [loop issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop-issue/)

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categoryphp-1/#post-1051034)
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