Title: category.php missing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# category.php missing

 *  [Ruriko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruriko/)
 * (@ruriko)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categoryphp-missing/)
 * I downloaded the latest version and it doesn’t have the category.php file in 
   the themes folder. Where is it??

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 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categoryphp-missing/#post-662449)
 * You don’t really need them, most most themes do have at least the archive.php
   and archives.php. If they aren’t there, WP will use index.php which works fine
   in most cases (if you don’t mind the archive has the same make-up as the index).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categoryphp-missing/#post-662449)
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