Comments on: New Category Templates in WordPress 2.9

By: Bill Robbins

Bill Robbins — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:12:54 +0000

I think this is a step up from requiring the ID (easier for the customer and easier to include in a theme). It's still somewhat limiting because you will require the user of the theme to have a category with the slug of "whatever" to use the template, even if they don't want one, but still want the template. I'm still glad they added it though.

By: Tammy Hart

Tammy Hart — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:02:22 +0000

This is also good for theme developers, because you distribute a free or premium theme with a special category template such as "micorblog" and let the user know they have that as an option. The next step would of course, to be able to set "single-microblog.php" But then we might be stepping into custom post types.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:08:37 +0000

For me is the name of the template more intuitive. Sometimes i work local for a client and the ID's on the local system must be not the same as the ID's from the live system. So i can edit the category-products.php and i don't have any trouble with my local system and the live system.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:43:29 +0000

It is allways possiblte to use the id-template. I think, the slug-version is only a other way, better for customer.

By: Jake Goldman

Jake Goldman — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:22:03 +0000

This could already be done with the category ID (category-3.php) - arguably still better since ID check is a bit more efficient and a user might change the slug.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:42:14 +0000

I've always used the category-5.php template method to style categories differently, I've never had to use queries.