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How to use Elementor / Gutenberg to customize categories?
1 reply · Started by crosby87 on May 1, 2021
Hi there,
Q1. By default, WordPress categories are not customisable with Elementor or Guthenberg. I can only customize them using the Customizer.
What is the best way to allow customising it with Elementor and/or Guthenberg?
There are some guides online (such as this), but I thought it's best to ask your guidance as it can be theme specific.
Example of a category page would be like this: https://millennialmoney.com/category/make-money/
You can clearly see that it's not the default style of WP.
Q2. A related question to this, could you please help how I can remove the word 'category' from a category's URL?
WP shows it likes this by default: http://www.website.com/category/name-of-category.
I would like to show it like this: http://www.website.com/name-of-category
Hi there,
directly editing a post archive is not possible within Gutenberg or the core editor - can't speak for Elementor.
That particular site would have been custom developed - as it contains the Post Loop and other post content in the same page.
Options with GPP 2.0 - you can style your archive templates as well as hook in content before and after the post loop.
Check out our YT Channel as there are several videos for how to use the new features:
https://www.youtube.com/c/GeneratePress/videos
For the second question - if your using an SEO plugin, most of them allow you to change/remove the category base from the URL. Or there is this plugin that can do that:
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/permalink-manager/
There are some 'other' options on various blogging sites that involve replacing the category base in the permalink settings but they are all prone to breaking stuff
