Categories and Static Pages

  • This is a question different from the ones asking to put pages under categories. I understand that the v1.5 “pages” concept is to create static pages.

    A lot of people are using Pages to distinquish their different categories. This applies to me, too. But I’m confused.

    If someone clicks on a link to, say, the Archives Page (physical page representing the category: archives), and then they click on the category in the sidebar “archives” or from one of the category listings in a post (Filed under: Archives), which page do they go to?

    I want to keep the categories on their own pages since there is static information related to each category, which makes the static pages wonderful. But what if someone bypasses the static page by using the category link?

    See my confusion? How can we clean this up?

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  • I’m not new to content, php, or mysql, but I am to Word Press. I have looked at the Codex about using the ‘category-#’ file to control the appearance of a specific category number. Excellent planning!

    What I am not seeing is probably because I am just too new. But when it says to use the index.php as a template for the category-#.php file, *which* index.php file does it mean, and which dir does WP look for these category*.php files? The root? In a theme? Somewhere else?

    Thank you.

    deb

    haiiro

    (@haiiro)

    qbert72, words can’t express how grateful I am for your post!

    I’ve been trying to find a way to put unique headers on my category pages without creating 10+ separate pages (a nightmere to update), and your approach is perfect. Thank you!

    Is there an easy way to have categories for the pages not just the posts?

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