How to make each category have its own page?

  • I am about to start a new website using WordPress (I have multiple ones already, this question is just beyond my skill level), and I have a question about setting it up.

    Is it possible to make each category have its own separate page, and the have all the posts from each category show up on the main page?

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  • I might not be understanding what you’re asking.

    WordPress by default (depending on the theme, I guess) will create an archive page for each category and also display posts from all cats on the homepage.

    yourdomain.com/category/cat_name/

    would be an example of what such a pages URL would be (assuming you have not changed the category base) and then change the “cat_name” to match one of your cats.

    If I completely missed the mark, post again. ??

    Thread Starter sp4rt4n

    (@sp4rt4n)

    Hmm… Now I feel silly… Haha. Alrighty then, one more question. On that category page (https://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/?cat=CATNUMBER), do posts show up as the full length post, or does the ‘Show More’ button appear?

    (Its late, Ive been up for 51 hours, and Im on my 3rd cup of coffee in 40 minutes… sorry if Im not making sense… Haha)

    That depends on what you want. In your category.php template (which is what drives the category page display), provided it exists, you can specify the_content or the_excerpt. And in fact, you can, on a category-by-category basis, do this. All you have to do is append the category id to the category template file. For example, if you have a category called Rants, and its ID is 3, you can create a custom category page just for Rants, and name it category-3.php. Then style it however you like. Make sense?

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