Give your categories and posts their own individual templates.
As of April 2026, Category Templates is a WordPress post plugin with 20 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
Easily apply templates to your category archive pages and posts with this plugin.
Valid templates are files placed your theme folder with the following code at the beginning of them:
For Post Templates: Template Name: Blog Template
For Archive Templates: Archive Template: Blog Template
Through this plugin’s options panel, you can choose which templates are applied to categories and posts. Even choose their priority over one another. You can even apply a template to an individual post.
Please report any bugs you come across.
Enjoy!
| WordPress | 2.7.1+ requiredTested up to 2.8.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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