Title: Custom Category Theme Hurdle.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Custom Category Theme Hurdle.

 *  [mattys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattys/)
 * (@mattys)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/)
 * Hello,
 * I have been asked to make one WP installation into many
    so to speak by desiging
   a custom category theme, header … for each cat’ page. Which will be re-directed
   to via .htacess or whatever method they choose to use.
 * EG; each custom cat pages becomes a mini site.
 * I have done this by following the docs on custom cat pages
    but have run into
   a problem with the comments.
 * How would i go about making a separate comments page that links to each custom
   header and cat page. ATM the comments page pulls the main header and i need to
   them indvidualized to suite. Hope that makes sense.
 * Matt

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 *  [oscarmota](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarmota/)
 * (@oscarmota)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659330)
 * If you want a different template for a category, just create a new template called
   category-#.php where # is the category ID.
 *  Thread Starter [mattys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattys/)
 * (@mattys)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659340)
 * Hi Oscar,
 * I’ve done the theme for the cat page but!! i need a separate comments page to
   fit the cat theme.
 * Each cat page will basically be one site/landing page.
    Illeaviating the need
   for multiple WP installations. **(See link below)**
 * [http://www.nb2k.com/wp/?cat=6](http://www.nb2k.com/wp/?cat=6) < ManUnited
 * ?cat=7 < Spurs
    ?cat=8 < Arsenal
 * and so on..
 * If you try to leave a comment it pulls the header from what ever is the current
   installed theme. Which would not be ideal.
 * Can i make custom comments.php page’s and somehow link to them from the cat pages.
 *  [oscarmota](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarmota/)
 * (@oscarmota)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659341)
 * Sorry, the link you posted seems weird/broken :S so I can’t see what actually
   happens.
 *  Thread Starter [mattys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattys/)
 * (@mattys)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659344)
 * [http://www.nb2k.com/wp/index.php](http://www.nb2k.com/wp/index.php) < if that
   doesn’t work then we’re doomed.
 * The link to the cat page in questions is ManU in the right sidebar categories
   if it does work. 🙂
 *  [oscarmota](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarmota/)
 * (@oscarmota)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659346)
 * Try it for yourself [http://www.nb2k.com/wp/?cat=6](http://www.nb2k.com/wp/?cat=6)
 * It seems that the WP theme is broken
 *  Thread Starter [mattys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattys/)
 * (@mattys)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659348)
 * Works fine here. Can you access the page are there errors or it just doesn’t 
   pull up?
 *  Thread Starter [mattys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattys/)
 * (@mattys)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659349)
 * Sorry Oscar i’m a first rate tool.
 * I just checked in FF and IE and it wasn’t formatting the page via my css rules.
   It appears the path to the css file was missing a ” That Opera obviously thinks
   is okay to parse.
 * [http://www.nb2k.com/wp/?cat=6](http://www.nb2k.com/wp/?cat=6)
 * Hope it is all working now.. if not i do belive i’ll scream.
 *  [oscarmota](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarmota/)
 * (@oscarmota)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-category-theme-hurdle/#post-659391)
 * That’s not the comments template, is single.php template.
 * You could try the [solution in this post](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/145264?replies=3)

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