Title: Help me!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help me!

 *  [S.K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kichu/)
 * (@kichu)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me/)
 * I want to have different category-wise options (like archiving, posts-paged etc)
   and the blogs on each category to be displayed in seperate templates, each in
   different folders.
    Is it possible in WordPress? If so how to achieve it, please!
   Pl show the kindly light! Thanks S.K

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 *  [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/)
 * (@southerngal)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me/#post-28340)
 * Sounds like a lot of work! I have no idea of how to do this, but good luck!
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me/#post-28344)
 * Hmmm, if I had to make a stab, I’d say you might really want to just do them 
   as separate wp blogs on the same site — especially if you want the folder breakdowns.
   
   Otherwise, definitely a LOT of customizing the PHP, as you’re looking for some
   rather extreme use of the system. Others, feel free to chime in! 😉 =d
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me/#post-28353)
 * I have a couple of questions, actually. What is the advantage of having separate
   templates and a file folder for every category? As far as the templates go, the
   combination of a default template and a style sheet or two gives you enormous
   flexibility. Multiple templates just sounds like a lot of work, and when you 
   want changes to the site, that means changing mutiple templates. It’s far easier
   to add new CSS layouts that re-design and re-test entirely new templates. I realise
   that no single tool or program is going to suit everybody, but I think that one
   of the strengths of WP is its simplicity.
    Just my 2 cents. Craig.
 *  Thread Starter [S.K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kichu/)
 * (@kichu)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me/#post-28356)
 * Thanks for your response.
    But the real crux of my requirement is the ability
   to set different options for different categories. Supposing I have two categories
   viz: Book-Reviews and Nuggets, I want each of them show different number of posts
   on a paged-posts set-up. And the “Previous Posts”, “Next-Posts” link must resolve
   to the files of each category distinctly. Right now (I use b2 now), I have one
   category called Rants which have longer posts so I want to show only 10 in each
   page and show the rest in other pages and so on; and since the other category
   Nuggets has shorter posts, I want to show 15 or 20 posts in a page. This is not
   possible presently with b2. I think I have made this clear. I think this kind
   of thing can be achieved in MT, but I want to use it with WP. If it can be done
   with MT , why not with WP which uses PHP which I understand has greater customisability!!
   Please help! Cheers! S.K
 *  [notthatugly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notthatugly/)
 * (@notthatugly)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me/#post-28370)
 * I think it _might_ be possible, if you had separate templates that specified 
   in the header to only display posts from one category, and specified which template
   you wanted in your links. So, instead of linking to ‘index.php?cat=1’ you’d link
   to ‘nuggets.php’ or whatever. And ‘nuggets.php’ would have ‘$cat=1’ in the header.
   In b2, you could set the number of posts to be displayed by inserting
    `< ? php
   $posts = x; ? > ` on the first line of the template, but I haven’t tried that
   in WP. Your main issue would be archives, because I can’t see how you’d be able
   to direct the links to different templates from there. You’d have to hack the
   PHP, and I don’t know enough about that to tell you whether it’s possible.

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