Tag: category page

A typical WordPress theme will provide only one set of categories wherein all categories are already listed. Suppose you want two or more sets of categories in two separate lists, there are two ways you can modify your WordPress theme to do just that.

Post lists are WordPress generated pages that contain list of all posts and may either display whole posts or excerpts. These include search results, category pages, and if configured, the home page. Do you want to insert advertisement between two adjacent posts in the post list?

The categories where a particular post belongs are usually listed somewhere in the post page, usually under the post title. For administrative or some other reasons, you want to assign posts to a particular category but you do not want your site visitors to see this category. This is how you prevent one or more category from showing up in the post page.

The category list is a useful navigation that normallly comes with a WordPress theme and can usually be found at the sidebar. For a variety of reasons, you might want to prevent some categories from showing in this list while they remain accessible through the dashboard or by manually typing the URL.

Almost all WordPress theme do not readily support the display of category description and unlike post excerpt, there is no obvious reason why you should display it. One possible use is to provide an introductory text on top of the category page of each category.