Custom Category Archive Pages

Ah well (no paste bin acc) here’s the template part again:

<section>
    <div class="col-md-12">
        <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
            <?php $item_number = 0; ?>
            <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
                <div class="col-md-4">
                    <article <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
                        <a href="<?php echo esc_url( the_permalink() ); ?>"><h3 class="nicein niceout nicem"><?php the_title(); ?></h3></a>
                        <a href="<?php echo esc_url( the_permalink() ); ?>"><?php
                                if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
                                    the_post_thumbnail( 'arch-img', array(
                                    'class' => 'nicein niceout nicem'
                                ) );
                                }
                             ?></a>
                        <?php the_excerpt( ); ?>
                    </article>
                </div>
                <?php $item_number++; ?>
                <?php if( $item_number % 3 == 0 ) echo '<div class="clearfix visible-md-block visible-lg-block"></div>'; ?>
            <?php endwhile; ?>
        <?php else : ?>
            <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.', 'RecoveryDevTheme' ); ?></p>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
    <div class="row pg-empty-placeholder"></div>
</section>

Well, I feel pretty stupid. I just copied category.php to category-links.php so I could show you it breaking… and it works fine.

I spent hours unable to make it work so I’m totally baffled, and apologise for wasting your time – but as I say, it seems to have magically fixed itself.

Thanks for your efforts.