Title: Custom category page
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom category page

 *  [rickcecil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickcecil/)
 * (@rickcecil)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-page/)
 * I’m looking to create a custom category page for one of my categories.
 * I’ve got the HTML and PHP all set up and it looks good, but, I’m wanting to do
   something that I haven’t seen done before. Not to say it hasn’t been done, I 
   just haven’t seen it.
 * The category page in question is called Interviews. It won’t have any posts —
   it’ll just have subcats of the people I’ve interviewed. And those subcats will
   have posts.
 * For example, if I’ve interviewed Bob Dylan, Madonna, and Dave Matthews, the category
   listing would look like this:
 * > Interviews
   >  –Bob Dylan —-Bob Dylan Interview post 1 —-Bob Dylan Interview post
   > 2 —-Bob Dylan Interview post 3 –Madonna —-Madonna Interview post 1 —-Madonna
   > Interview post 2 —-Madonna Interview post 3 —-Madonna Interview post 4 –Dave
   > Matthews —-Dave Matthews Interview post 1 —-Dave Matthews Interview post 2
 * I want to do two things on the “Interview” category page.
 * 1) Display all the subcategories automagically. I am currently doing this with‘
   wp_list_categories’, but it doesn’t do 2 and 3 below — and seems to prohibit 
   2 and 3 from happening. The title would then link to the subcategory page, which
   would look like all the other category pages on the site.
 * 2) Display an image associated for each subcategory. I know that’s not
    default
   in WP. Any good plugin recommendations for associating an image with a category?
 * 3) Display the description for each category.
 * Any thoughts on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  [stipko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stipko/)
 * (@stipko)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-page/#post-1105492)
 * I found help here [http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates)
   but none of my themes have a category.php file. What gives?
 *  Thread Starter [rickcecil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickcecil/)
 * (@rickcecil)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-page/#post-1105580)
 * [@stipko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stipko/) Your theme is probably
   using archive.php to generate the category page.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-page/#post-1105580)
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