Twenty Twelve: category page layout

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  adventuresincubing · Member · Jun 23, 2013 at 10:03 pm

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  I believe the answer is no, but is there any way to change the layout of the category pages in Twenty Twelve?

  I have a menu item that links to the category Favorites. That displays a handful of posts per page (the part up to the more link), and then paginates to get to the rest. I was hoping to get just a list of titles (akin to the results from running a search) or just titles plus the first 200 character excerpt.

  I know how to do this on a self-hosted site by editing category.php. Is there any way to approximate that on a hosted blog?

  Thanks.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 23, 2013 at 10:28 pm

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  The answer is indeed no. Some themes show category pages the way you want, and some don’t. I do not believe this is even configurable with the Custom Design upgrade.

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  justpi · Member · Jun 23, 2013 at 11:44 pm

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  Titles plus excerpts is impossible. Titles only is easy when you have the upgrade:

  .category .entry-content, .category footer.entry-meta {
      display: none;
  }

  (If you do this, you’ll probably like to decrease various margins etc.)

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  adventuresincubing · Member · Jun 24, 2013 at 5:15 pm

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  Thank you for the responses. I hadn’t even thought about the CSS display:none option. That would work. Or it could set a height of 100px or whatever to (inelegantly) truncate.

  But it would still paginate every 5 posts rather than getting a longer list.

  It would still be an improvement over long post excerpts, though. Thanks for the suggestion.

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  justpi · Member · Jun 25, 2013 at 11:27 am

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  You’re welcome.
  Five posts? No – the number of posts per page is set in Settings > Reading.