Custom category pages

Hi there! This is my first post in this forum....

The thing is that I've been searching for a way to customize the category pages, but all of them seems to involve php editing. I've installed a plugin called "WP Custom Category Pages" but it doesn't seem to work with the News theme....

Mainly I want to get rid of the "Category archives" text in the upper area of the category page.

Any idea??

Could You please post an url to exact place on your site?

The url is: http://wp.xeraco.es/category/arees-i-serveis/

I want to remove "Category Archives: xxx", so I only get a list of the pages inside that category and an introductory text (it only shows one item per page right now). Something like this:

Urbanisme
xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxx......
Cultura
xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxx......
Esports
xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxx......

I come from Joomla and I'm used to get something like this using the "category blog" layout. It would be nice to include a thumbnail in each page link.

Please edit: wp-content/themes/News/css/override.css

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body.category #gk-mainbody h1.page-title {display: none;}


Remember to enable "Use the override.css file" in theme settings (item in admin menu, under comments section, advanced tab).

Hi,

@fjavimarti if you additionally want to show more items per page on category page, use Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading options -> Blog pages show at most option.

If you want to include a thumbnail in each post link, you have to set featured images (during post editing)

Thanks for the help.

But regarding to Blog layout, what's the best to get the posts from a category displayed with title, thumbnail and intro text? I mean....the posts displayed in a grid of, let's say, 3 columns.

It should be not that difficult, but I can't figure it out.

It's not so simple, generally it's a custom work.
But you can easily do it with GK News Show Pro Widget.
http://demo.gavick.com/wordpress/news/?page_id=506
http://demo.gavick.com/wordpress/news/?page_id=765
You can set coumns, rows, autoanimation, display or not every element, choose category slug (or other) as data source, and display this widget only on specific pages (using widget rules).

Ah nice! I've been experimenting for a while with that widget and it looks very very useful.

Thanks!