Customized landingpages for categories

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Here is the Template Hierarchy, which gives you an overview of the different approaches.

You could create for each category an individual PHP file:

  • either category-{CATEGORY ID}.php
  • or category-{CATEGORY SLUG}.php.

Or you could use a single file category.php in which you define the output (as well as its layout, style etc.) according to the current category – again, either depending on its ID or its slug.

Here’s a short example using the ID:

$category = get_the_category();
$cat_ID = $category[0]->cat_ID;
switch ($cat_ID) {
    case 'A':
        ...
        break;
    case 'B':
        ...
        break;
    default:
        ...
}