Title: Custom Category Template
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom Category Template

 *  [raygun267](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raygun267/)
 * (@raygun267)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-template-3/)
 * I’ve been scouring the internet (google and wordpress) for about five days now
   and have not had luck with my situation, here goes…
 * The two major sections of my website are based on categories. Section one is 
   my Work so that is a category with five sub categories and the other is Hobby
   with another five sub categories. The sidebar on each page is a menu of their
   respective categories. So if you are on the Work page and you click Print in 
   the sidebar menu I want the content to just show anything that is tagged as “
   Print”.
 * Okay so I have the code all written and tested in category.php, everything does
   what I want no problem. I’ve read the [Category Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates)
   documentation, I get the hierarchy, tested the hierarchy by removing the files.
   Again everything works except when I try to create a category-slug.php or category-
   ID.php. I’ve tried changing the permalinks, still nothing.
 * Am I missing something? Do I need to register the category templates in the functions
   or something? Those two files are just being completely ignored.
 * I am using pre_get_post to have my CPT recognized which is functioning as needed.
 * Any insight would be helpful, this is my last hurdle before publishing my website
   externally.

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

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 * Last reply from: [raygun267](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raygun267/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-template-3/)
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