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GYS Themed Categories

by Mike on Nov.16, 2008, under GYS Themed Categories

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Hi there folks! It’s been quite some time since I wrote the predecessor of this plugin called Wordpress Themed Categories Plugin and I admit that I have failed to maintain it. Lots of people are reporting that it doesn’t work so I decided to rewrite it.

Introducing GYS Themed Categories 2.0. It’s the same as the old one except that this one will work for Wordpress 2.6 and above. Sorry for leaving users Wordpress 2.5 and lower behind. It’s just too hard keeping track of all the versions so I decided to just make sure it works on the latest versions.

You can download it here. GYS Themed Categories

To use it, just upload it to your Wordpress blog’s plugins folder and activate it.

How much does it cost? Well, this one’s free but I’d really appreciate if you can link back to this site. For bug reports, just post a comment and I’ll try my best to have it fixed.

Download GYS Themed Categories

Disclaimer: GYS will only provide support for scripts, themes and plugins on this site that bear the GYS brand name.

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18 comments for this entry:
  1. shawn

    I installed your categories 2.0 plugin and it seemed to be working perfectly.

    I just ran into one problem that I cannot solve and could use some advice.

    When I go into a category where I have changed the theme, it works perfectly. However if I click on the ‘next page’ of articles on the bottom it reverts to my main theme for the article listings. If I click on an article itself I get back to the modified theme like it should.

    How do I solve this?

    example:
    http://www.annointed.net/blog/category/christian-blogs/journals-of-the-heart/ works perfectly

    http://www.annointed.net/blog/category/christian-blogs/journals-of-the-heart/page/2/ reverted back to the old theme.

  2. jay

    Thx for the great plugin! quick question.

    page navigation..

    when i click on page 2 it automatically reverts back to original theme even though it still set to the themed category.

    any workarounds?

  3. Mike

    Hi Shawn and Jay,

    Looks like you both have the same problem. I’ll look into the issue and see what I can do about it. I’ll keep you posted.

    Mike

  4. Mike

    Shawn and Jay,

    What version of Wordpress are you using?

    Mike

  5. Mike

    Update: I tested the current version with Wordpress 2.7 and it seems to work just fine.

    Can’t replicate your issue.

    Mike

  6. jay

    using wordpress 2.7

    basically its issue with page navigation

    aka wp-pagenavi on themed categories.

    1. main page - maintheme
    2. categories - different theme.
    3. categories page 2 = reverts back to main theme.

  7. shawn

    I am using 2.6.5

    It works fine except if you have more than 1 page of articles in a category using a ‘themed category’ the previous pages revert back to old theme.

  8. Mike

    Hi Shawn and Jay,

    It’s fixed now. Please download it from the link provided in the post.

    Mike

  9. shawn

    Thank you, it worked perfectly.
    I pray you have a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

  10. kralksk

    Wordpress 2.7 not working. Category edit, theme not listing.

  11. ronie

    Hi,

    I have these ff. menus by adding pages:
    -About
    -Products
    -FAQs

    Can i use this plugin wherein I will assign THEME A to About page and use the THEME B to the rest of the menus?

    I tested this plugib and it only works in Categories.

    I’m using wordpress 2.7

    Is it possible?

    Thanks!

  12. Mike

    Hi kralksk,

    I did a quick test and it seems to be working just fine. The themes are being listed.

    Mike

  13. Mike

    Hi Ronie,

    Sorry but the plugin only handles categories and not pages.

    Mike

  14. Örjan

    Is it possible to just specify a php-file and not an entire theme?

    Since I have 50+ categories with different look, it would be swell…

  15. Mike

    Sorry, but that can’t be done with this plugin.

  16. mark

    I’ve noticed that posts in multiple categories fall back to the main theme. Does that mean that if you want to use multiple categories for a post, they all have to be associated with the same theme in order for theme switching to work?

    [Can you CC me your answer, I might not find this page back.]

  17. Mike

    hi, posts in multiple categories will be displayed using the theme of the first category.

  18. Eddie

    Thank you for this plugin.
    I’m not using it yet but this is going to make me work on my theme all night long !

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