Title: Do category behave like sections?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Do category behave like sections?

 *  Resolved [zzzreyes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zzzreyes/)
 * (@zzzreyes)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-category-behave-like-sections/)
 * I am trying to migrate to wordpress from Joomla, I am wondering if I can have
   a link to a series of “category” posts.
 * For example, I have a need for a series of posts categorized by the the subject,
   lets say “math” can I have a link that will display all the posts under that 
   category?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-category-behave-like-sections/#post-1092704)
 * Yes. That’s just a native feature of WordPress. Write a Post, assign Categories,
   and then those posts are accessible via a link to that category’s archives.
 * Don’t be confused by what an archive is–it is just a generated display of your
   posts at that moment. You don’t do anything to create the archive, that’s an 
   automatic thing WordPress does for you. Usually, archives are date, category,
   tag, or author, based.
 * Access to archives is typically presented via links in a sidebar under an Archive(
   date based), Category, or Tag Cloud, heading. Widgets, or [Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags),
   such as [wp_get_archives()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_get_archives),
   [wp_list_categories()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories),
   [wp_tag_cloud()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_tag_cloud), and 
   [wp_list_authors()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_authors),
   are the constructs used to present links to users to visit your various archives.
   The process of placing code in your Theme’s Templates is explained in [Stepping Into Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates)
   and [Stepping Into Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags).
 * Once a user clicks on a Category link in the sidebar, the display of those posts
   can be controlled by a [Category Template](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates).
   Other [Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates), such as [Author Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates),
   and [Tag Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Tag_Templates), are available 
   if you set them up. These Templates can be coded via [Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags)
   such as [the_title()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_title), [the_content()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content),
   or [the_excerpt()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt), to 
   display just a post title, the full content of the post, or just an excerpt of
   the post.
 * Also, it is important to understand the [Template Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy),
   as that is how WordPress determines what [Template](http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates)
   to use to render the posts for reading by your readers.
 * If a user visits a Category archive, then clicks on a given post title in that
   Category archive, the display of that single post is again presented by another
   Template, and again, the [Template Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
   determines what Template displays that single post. Finally, that single post
   Template can be coded to display just the title, the full post content, or an
   excerpt.
 *  Thread Starter [zzzreyes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zzzreyes/)
 * (@zzzreyes)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-category-behave-like-sections/#post-1092706)
 * Hey thanks… that really makes life simple, the ability to display specific content
   through a single function call. I am going to give this a try.
 * THanks again 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [zzzreyes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zzzreyes/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-category-behave-like-sections/#post-1092706)
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