[Support request] Display subcategories on parent category page.

[Andrew]

Hi, great theme!

Any idea how to achieve this: On the parent category pages, there is a grid display of the subcategories with their category title, image, description and link.

Sure, it’s quite a bit of customization but I’d like to achieve it with GeneratePress.

Any pointers would be great!

[Leo]

Hi Andrew,

This will require lots of customizations for sure.

Are you able to provide an example of what you are going for? Thanks!

[Andrew]

Well, http://lifecycle.pash.space/cycles/

You can see from the menu that Cycles is a page with three dropdown tabs that are categories that are actually subcategories of a parent category also called Cycle. I’d like to use the category page rather than a static page to display the three subs. I’d like it to be automatic so that every parent category page does that.

[Tom]

That would involve some decent customization to the category page template. You’re likely better off using the static page approach – it gives you much more control.

[Andrew]

OK, yes, sure – but a client wants it all done automatically.

When a category page is displayed, can you point me towards the relevant php files please.

[Tom]

category.php is the template file for categories.

category-slug.php is the template you would use for specific categories – slug being the name of the category.

Make sure to upload these files into a child theme 🙂

[Andrew]

Hi there,

Getting confused, slightly – I can see no category.php file in the GP theme files.

Only the one in wp-includes.

Please advise!

[Tom]

We use archives.php, which works for categories as well as other archive pages. You can use archives.php as well, or use category.php which is more specific.

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