Beautiful Pro Custom Category Template

[MediaServices]

I've been tasked with creating 2 pages on a Beautiful Pro themed site where I could display a subset of articles from a category followed by a "Read More [Category] Articles" that would be slightly different per page due. For example, I was tasked with taking the 'teasers' for 3 articles from the http://chswomeninbusiness.com/category/business/ category and placing them on a page followed by a per-page button/link saying "Read About More [Category Name]".

The first working idea I had was to assign a 'featured women in business' category an assign the 3 articles to that category also. Then creating a simple category template (https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates) like category-ID.php or category-slug-name.php file for that featured category and add my custom "Read More" link below that.

As I look through /wp-content/themes/genesis/ and /wp-content/themes/beautiful-pro/ there is no category.php, archive.php I can find and I don't seem to be able to use /wp-content/themes/genesis/index.php since I can only place my custom "Read More" link before or after genesis();. So I installed Genesis Simple Hooks and added the code to display my per-page button/link to more category articles for the 2 category IDs and this works, but it seems 'messy' to me.

1) Is there a better and neater way?

2) To create a category-ID.php or category-slug-name.php what file would I copy as the template file?

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– George (MediaServices)

http://chswomeninbusiness.com/category/wire/

[Brad Dalton]

Try this tutorial

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[MediaServices]

Brad, thanks for the reply. From your response I gather you think that the way I chose to handle the requirement to have 3 of the articles from any given category n a separate 'page' with a link to read all of the rest of them is the best way to go?

With that assumption in mind I previously read your tutorial when googling, but for me it fell apart right here:

Simply copy either the archive.php or category.php file from your parent theme and paste it into your child themes folder then change the file name if needed.

As I mentioned above I was unable to find a category.php or archive.php in either /wp-content/themes/genesis/ or /wp-content/themes/beautiful-pro/.

So, I can't open an existing category.php or archive.php file and save it as category-23.php then find a place to add:

echo '<a href="http://chswomeninbusiness.com/category/business/"><strong>Read About More Women in Business</strong></a>';

So, I went down your page and looked at your archive.php Gist and I see code that probably does some really cool stuff, but I have no idea what. I can see that you're example essentially changes 'genesis_post_info' value from 12 to 8 and 'genesis_do_post_image' value from 8 to 2, but I have no idea what that does or how it would help me add a link. Maybe I need a more basic tutorial?

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– George (MediaServices)

[Brad Dalton]

Another option is to add a widget area to a page and use the Genesis Featured Posts widget in the widget area.

Or

You can use a template coded to display 3 posts from different categories.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[MediaServices]

Score, booyah! Brad that sounds great! We have another StudioPress site running Genesis Featured Posts widgets and Genesis Featured Pages widgets on the home page. Great idea!

Now I just need to find a tutorial to add Widgets to a page. Looks like your tutorial here is what I need. Thanks!

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– George (MediaServices)

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