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Wordpress Design Help

by stingrays06
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I need some help making the Categories page of my wordpress site look better. As of now, I am using one of my categories pages as a blog while the rest of my website is just salespages....hope that makes sense.

This is what my categories page looks like:

Related Articles....
link to blog post 1
link to blog post 2
link to blog post 3

Do you guys know how to make the categories page look more like the homepage of a typical blog? I have tested a few excerpt plugins, but they either didnt do what I was looking for, or were too confusing to use.

Any plugins or suggestions would be great.

Thanks for your help!

If you need me to add more detail just let me know and I'll be on later.
#design #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author hammertorch
    For normal category page it really looks like the one you posted
    Related Articles....
    link to blog post 1
    link to blog post 2
    link to blog post 3
    What do you mean exactly by making it similar to the home page of your site? can you add more details?
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    • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
      Originally Posted by hammertorch View Post

      For normal category page it really looks like the one you posted
      Related Articles....
      Actually, in most of the themes that I've seen (and there are quite a few...) on the category archive page this is the "standard" heading:

      CATEGORY ARCHIVES: Category name here
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    It is not a WP issue, per se.

    The display of the category archives is theme-dependent: meaning whatever is coded in the category.php or archive.php or index.php... will be used to display your category "page".

    The templates listed above are looked up in exactly this order by WP; if the more specific one (starting with category-XX, where XX is the cat ID) is not present, WP goes lokking for the next one. Index.php, as always, is the general fallback, if a template doesn't exist.

    In other words, you should look at the existing and used template file: what is the code in it.

    As a general advice, you should probably use instead the built-in 'make a Page the front-page of your WP install' feature, which also requires to select an existing and empty(!) Page as your 'blog page'.
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