How to list posts under the category tab
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I’d like a list of each post title to be shown when you click on the category tab, instead of simply having a lengthy scrolldown page without knowing what or how far it will go on for!
Is this doable with any theme?
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Whether or not full posts, permalinked or thumbnails are displayed on Categories Pages and Archives pages is theme dependent ie. it’s coded into the template and we cannot edit templates or themes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/
In the majority of themes, posts on category or other archive pages show up just as they do on the main posts page in the blog and the number displayed is also the same. (See this page > Settings > Reading and note how many posts you choose there sets it for all). But in some themes only the beginnings of posts are shown, and in a few themes you only get titles or thumbnails. See here for a theme list of themes that may display the way you want > Category/archive pages: full posts or not http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/
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Ah, thank you for that information TF.
So they want to sucker us in to the upgraded version I see! :p
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That’s what you think, but you’re not right. If you were a regular here, you would have seen that users usually complain when a theme does not display full posts on category pages.
If you want a list of titles only, you can switch to a different theme, or you can create one static page for each category and create links to the posts filed under that category (either manually or using the display-posts shortcode); then you can replace the Categories widget with the Pages widget, or create a custom menu, add those pages, and set it as your top menu or display it in the sidebar via a Custom Menu widget.
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Actually with a custom design upgrade one can create a permalinked titles only on Categories and Archives pages. I’m not clear if that applies to some or to all themes but if you search justpi’s answers I think you will find that stated in the last couple of weeks.
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Aha! No sooner did I post than justpi arrives to provide the workaround and to correct us.
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Well let me first remove this big foot from my mouth, and secondly thank all of you for the helpful input thus far!
I guess it’s back to the tinkering process…
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