Category-Sites

Hi,

where can I set or change the design of category-list?
For example:
http://luftschubser.de/category/burgenregister/ is the list of castles I posted. But I'd like to have a different size of pics (thumbnails). Where can I change the whole thing, the posts are shown on the category-list?

Thanks
Alex

Hi,

Please check the Game/category.php file which loads the content-archive.php (here you can change the category layout).

Hi,

checked category.php and content-archive.php. But just can't find the settings where I can do some changes.
Maybe I didn't make clear what I'd like to change: I'd like to change the size of the images and also would like to change the exerpts: More words or letters. Isn't that in a css-file?
That's, because I'd like to create a landing page for a special category:
http://luftschubser.de/category/burgenregister/

I am using mainbody-top for showing all castles I described in a map.
I will ad below a few pages, like a portfolio, of some study of castles.

Than, the category list will follow.

So, either I can change the layout of the category-list or I need some other way to make a new landing page.

Do you have an idea?

Hi,

Featured image size is defined in this line (content-archive.php file):

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<?php the_post_thumbnail('medium'); ?>


ref. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Re ... _thumbnail

but if you want to have another layout only for this category, you have to duplicate your category.php into category-burgenregister.php where the burgenregister is your category slug. In this file you have to change this line:

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<?php get_template_part( 'content-archive', get_post_format() ); ?>


to i.e.

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<?php get_template_part( 'content-archive-burgenregister', get_post_format() ); ?>


duplicate content-archive.php, change the file name to content-archive-burgenregister.php and add your modifications in this file (will be used only on your burgenregister category then).

Thanks for helping!!!

Hi Piotr,

I tried to change the image-size by using

<?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?> or <?php the_post_thumbnail( array(100, 100) ); ?>
but nothing changed.

I'd like to have the images at category-sites more in width than in height. Maybe like 500 x 300 for example.

And I'd like to have the_excerpt shown with more chars or words.

So how can I change both at content-archive.php?

Thanks for helping!
Alex

Please check any other modifications - maybe this file is not used on your category at all (i.e. wrong category slug).

Regarding the image size - you can add new size in your functions.php file, please check this article:
https://developer.wordpress.org/referen ... mage_size/

after that you have to regenerate your thumbnails:
https://pl.wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

Generally this kind of modifications are a theme customization which is beyond our technical support.

Thank you Piotr.

Well, I am not a developer. Just having very low php-knowledge.
I read the articles you told me and so I tried like there is explained.
So, if the images are not resizeable on an easy way. I will let that pass.

But how can I enlarge the excerpt? More words?

Thank your very much.

Guess I found some way:
I added

//the_excerpt custom version
function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 55;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

at function.php . That changed the amount of words. The first 55 words of the content are shown now.


cheers
Alex