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WordPress Category Page Templates

How Do You Use Them at Your Website?

On first glance you might not be able to think of any use for WordPress specialized category pages.

Somebody over at WordPress has thought of just about everything.

The more I use WordPress and implement it into my web design projects the better I understand what a full featured Content Management System it really is. I recently wrote an article desscribing one of my favorite WordPress features which allows you to assign separate category template pages for different post categories. This article explains this concept in a bit more detail.

Most of the standard WordPress themes include a file name archive.php. This file is called each time a user accesses an archived post. Examples of archived posts are:

Monthly posts
Yearly posts
Post within a certain category

When a user views the selected archived posts, the page displayed by the browser is controlled by the archive.php file and the XHTML code within that page. Often times this archive.php file is customized to offer the user information about the subset of posts that they are viewing. For instance, if you view the archives on this website for the posts filed under the category “Blogging” you will notice that the first paragraph of the page offers you a brief advisory of just what posts you are viewing.

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December 11th, 2007 | Blogging, WordPress | 1 comment

Two WordPress Features I Love

What are Your Favorite WordPress Features?

Every website I have developed in the past year has used WordPress as the content management system. Every day I learn new techniques for implementing WordPress into my client websites. Although WordPress is realtively simple to use, it is packed full of features that make it ideal for many website design projects.

I wanted to share with others two of the neat features I have discovered that WordPress allows a developer to implement. Although WordPress is a great system right out-of-the-box, the ability to extend it for more custom applications is what really appeals to me.

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November 25th, 2007 | WordPress | 3 comments

Nancy Redd

A Million Dollar Miss America

Project Complete: I just completed a website for Nancy Redd. For those of you who do not know her, Nancy is a former Miss America contestant as well as a $250,000.00 winner on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

If those two attributes were not enough, Nancy is also a Harvard University graduate who has recently written a book titled Body Drama that is available available at Amazon.com. She’s is also a very attractive young woman!

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November 21st, 2007 | Portfolio, WordPress | 5 comments