[aparente001]

I created a category archive page in my main menu (for category = ‘question’). I would like to achieve the following:

– change the way the page title appears

– display the full content of each post in this category (not an excerpt)

– display all the comments, without requiring the visitor to click on anything

– display only the 50 most recent posts in this category

Here’s how I tried to do this. I copied the file category.php from the Catch Evolution folder over to the child theme folder. I changed the file name to category-question.php. I edited the file and changed the printf line to read as follows:

printf( __( 'HELPline Test');

I added the following right before the endwhile:

<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

However, the page no longer loads. It used to, before I copied the file over to the child theme folder, and edited it.

I read, but did not understand, the instructions in category.php that read as follows:

/* Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
 * called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
*/

Hoping for some guidance about this, and also limiting the number of posts to 50. Thank you.

[Mahesh]

@aparante001: Please replace the code in your child theme’s category.php with the code below:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying Category Archive pages.
 *
 * @package Catch Themes
 * @subpackage Catch_Evolution_Pro
 * @since Catch Evolution 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

			<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

				<header class="page-header">
					<h1 class="page-title"><?php
						printf( __( 'HELPline Test', 'catch-evolution' ), '<span>' . single_cat_title( '', false ) . '</span>' );
					?></h1>

					<?php
						$category_description = category_description();
						if ( ! empty( $category_description ) )
							echo apply_filters( 'category_archive_meta', '<div class="category-archive-meta">' . $category_description . '</div>' );
					?>
				</header>

				<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

					<?php
						/* Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
						 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
						 * called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
						 */
						get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
					?>

					<?php
						$withcomments = "1";
						comments_template( '', true );
					?>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

				<?php catchevolution_content_nav( 'nav-below' ); ?>

			<?php else : ?>

				<article id="post-0" class="post no-results not-found">
					<header class="entry-header">
						<h1 class="entry-title"><?php _e( 'Nothing Found', 'catch-evolution' ); ?></h1>
					</header><!-- .entry-header -->

					<div class="entry-content">
						<p><?php _e( 'Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.', 'catch-evolution' ); ?></p>
						<?php get_search_form(); ?>
					</div><!-- .entry-content -->
				</article><!-- #post-0 -->

			<?php endif; ?>

			</div><!-- #content -->
		</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer();

This will resolve two of your issues.
– change the way the page title appears
– display all the comments, without requiring the visitor to click on anything

For the other two, you’ll have to change some settings. Please follow along:
– display the full content of each post in this category (not an excerpt)
Go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Customize=> Theme Options=> Layout Options and select Full Content Display in Full Content Display and click on Save Changes

– display only the 50 most recent posts in this category
Go to Dashboard=> Settings=> Reading and put 50 in Blog pages show at most field and click on Save Changes

Hope this helps. Let me know if any problem.

Regards,
Mahesh

[aparente001]

Thank you, but I have other archive pages where I need category.php to be unaltered. It’s just for this one category (=question) where things should behave differently.

I tried your code in a file (in the child theme directory) called category-question.php. Using this to create a category page gave me an error as follows:

The main page isn’t working

Site is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

[Mahesh]

@aparente001: The code should have worked fine. I have attached the category-question.php file in the link below, please try and check if this helps. I checked it in our server and worked fine.
https://goo.gl/bPliQa
Let me know if any problem.

Regards,
Mahesh

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