Title: Request: Category Customization
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Request: Category Customization

 *  [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * (@crowspeaker)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-category-customization/)
 * Since there is no way to do this currently in WordPress without hacking the template-
   functions-category.php file, I’ll go ahead and request it here. I think this 
   would be useful.
 * It would be great to change the list type used for listing out categories by 
   passing a parameter (‘listtype=o’, eg) through the wp_list_cats() function.
 * It would also be nice to pass $before and $after parameters if you’re turning
   lists off so you don’t automatically just get a `<br />` tag.
 * Are other people interested in seeing something like this? Speak up!

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-category-customization/#post-195704)
 * I guess most people are happy with the way they can customize the category list
   through the CSS file. But you never know…
 *  Thread Starter [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * (@crowspeaker)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-category-customization/#post-195711)
 * Thanks, moshu.
 * I suppose I could do the same, but I’m always for more flexibility if possible.
   I don’t want to bog the WP system with feature-itis, it just seems that some 
   functions can accept the $before and $after parameters, and I really like using
   the defintion list since you can use `<dt>` as kind of header.
 * Other folks, feel free to weigh in, too.

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 * Last reply from: [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-category-customization/#post-195711)
 * Status: not resolved

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