Title: Customizing Post Listing in admin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Customizing Post Listing in admin

 *  [regio007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/regio007/)
 * (@regio007)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-post-listing/)
 * Hello.
 * I’m trying to create a Plugin to transform WordPress as a CMS for a client. I’m
   using Posts with different Categories for different purposes.
 * What I want to do is customize my Post List Layout through my Plugin.
    I’ve been
   searching everywhere for this type of implementation but I cannot find it.
 * My question is how can I do this without editing WordPress core.
    I’m trying 
   to do this trough Filters and Actions.
 * Does anyone knows what are the necessary Hooks to filter posts by Categories 
   and change Post list columns ?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-post-listing/#post-1215915)
 * > My question is how can I do this without editing WordPress core.
 * Usually you don’t have to edit core files to change the display of posts. Rather
   you would change a theme’s template files.
 * Might look at [Template Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy),
   [Category Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates), and [Stepping Into Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates).
 *  Thread Starter [regio007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/regio007/)
 * (@regio007)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-post-listing/#post-1215917)
 * Sorry. I forgot to mention that this customization is on the Admin side.
 * As an example:
    If have 2 different categories A and B. I want to customize the
   post list layou on the backoffice. For category A I want to remove the comments
   column and the quick edit column. For category B I want to remove the same columns
   as for A and I also want to add a new column.
 * How can I do this kind of modifications only with, hooks, actions and filters?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-post-listing/#post-1216023)
 * Don’t know of a plugin that does that, but this plugin allows you to create templates
   for your post writing experience, so maybe you’ll get some hints…
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-post-template/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-post-template/)

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-post-listing/#post-1216023)
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