Connect to your WordPress hosting using an FTP client and then go to /wp-content/themes/your-current-theme/ and upload your category-design. php file to your theme directory. Now, any changes you make to this template will only appear in this particular category’s archive page.

You have two options for changing the style of individual category pages on your WordPress site. You can edit the theme files in your hosting account’s cPanel to create your own custom category pages, or you can add custom CSS to the Additional CSS module in your WordPress dashboard.

To add a category, login to your WordPress admin dashboard and go to Posts > Categories. Provide the new category name, slug, description and choose a parent item. Click Add Category. To delete an existing category, hover over it and then click Delete.

To display the name of the first category: php $cat = get_the_category(); echo $cat[0]->cat_name;?> 0 displays the first category, so 1 will display the second category, 2 will display the third category, and so on.

By default WordPress does not allow a user to add categories to Pages. However adding categories and tags to Pages is quite simple. In this post I will share a code snippet which allows you to add Post categories to Pages. Here is what we will be doing: Modify WordPress Query to display List of Pages using Category Archive and Tag Archive.

First, you need to make sure that your theme’s body element contains the body class function as shown above. If it does, then it will automatically include all the WordPress generated CSS classes mentioned above. After that, you will also be able to add your own custom CSS classes to the body element.

From the list of theme files on your right, click on category.php, if you do not have a category.php file there, then look for archive.php. If you can’t find either of these templates, there is a good chance that you are using a WordPress Theme Framework and this tutorial may not be useful for you.

To do that, add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file: The code above will add the category class in your body class for single post pages. You can then use CSS classes to style it as you wish. $classes[] = $post->post_type . ‘-‘ . $post->post_name;