Title: Customizing category page
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Customizing category page

 *  Resolved [lassial358](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lassial358/)
 * (@lassial358)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-category-page/)
 * Hello,
 * I’d appreciate a tip in getting started customizing the /category/ page.
 * I’d like replicate the behavior I have on the front page to show only excerpts,
   but I’ve totally forgotten what I did to enable even that.
 * A support thread I found [ here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-make-excerpts-only-on-category-pages)
   doesn’t seem to be readily applicable to Tiny as it doesn’t come with post.php.
 * Looking at [https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates](https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates)
   neither matches anything I see on my Tiny f-w child theme to get started.
 * From which PHP file should I start from?
 * Best,
    L

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 *  Theme Author [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/)
 * (@tomasm)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-category-page/#post-7327845)
 * The easiest way is to use MORE tag in the posts (place cursor in the editor and
   click MORE button). This way you will tell WordPress were to cut the text while
   displaying archives/categories.
 * You can also enforce automatic excerpts (try to use search function and you will
   see how they look in Tiny Framework), but they are not without shortcomings. 
   In my experience MORE tag is flexible and gives best results.
 *  Thread Starter [lassial358](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lassial358/)
 * (@lassial358)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-category-page/#post-7327899)
 * Thanks Thomas for the reply,
    however, it didn’t quite help.
 * Luckily, I finally remembered what I did for the homepage; modify `content.php`
   and lines 78-80 which for me now contain
 *     ```
       <?php if ( is_search() || is_home() || is_category() ) : ?>
       <?php tinyframework_excerpt();?>
       ```
   
 * that is, forced excerpt for Search, Home and Category pages. The is_category 
   rule was added.
 * However, I don’t think MORE is the best solution.
 * At least I use a separate SEO plugin (All in One for me) and write 150 ch descriptions
   for the articles – that’s what I’d ideally like to use. I think I could try that
   next when I have the time to do it.

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 * Last reply from: [lassial358](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lassial358/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-category-page/#post-7327899)
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