How to Create a Category Archive Page Template with GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks

If you've got a content heavy site with a lot of posts, you may need to create a Category Archive template! In this tutorial, I use GeneratePress Premium and GenerateBlocks Pro to show you exactly how to do that.

There's a few very specific settings you must pay close attention to, to ensure it works properly.

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[marlonhenrique]

Thanks so much broo... This help me a lot...

[jose.fonterosa]

I like these simple and practical tutorials. Thanks Adam

[hjn]

Thanks a million! I didn't even know Loop Template existed until now. This channel is gold for GP&GB users.

[grzzlyadams]

This saved what little hair I have left from being pulled out of my head thank you!

[VladisAnalogEscape]

Very timely video, I've been meaning to redo the cat archive pages on my WP GP blog. Thanks, Adam.

[papay-ff]

Thank you so much. Tou really helped me a lot

[SirajMuhammad]

thanks, do you have any video regarding the GP premium custom home page design?

[visibull_local]

I wish in the Content Source, you could choose "Term" in addition to List of Terms. Sometimes posts need to display in multiple categories, but if you use that for the dynamic H1, it'll look ridiculous because it's pulling all the terms of the first post in that archive. So, you have to write a short code function to pull the current category for the H1. (There may be a better way, but if so, I don't know it.) Is there a better way to display ONLY the current category as the H1?

Great video! I couldn't have done it without you!

[thebikeracer]

Can you do a video with custom post types and tags? I can't get the tags to function correctly. My goal is to create a custom tags archive page, but I haven't been able to crack the code. Tags always link back to the default tag archive page.

[KirkPatrich]

How i can add meta title and description for archive page?

[DamianNimeck]

This is great! But how would you create a dynamic title based on the TAG of posts, and not the CATEGORY? I followed your instructions, but the title only displays the Category title, even on the tag archive page.

[smoothbhoy]

@Adam Wright Design thanks for the solid info. However, I'm encountering one issue with the template. After saving the custom category template with your instruction, I now see two H1's - one from the default category page and one from the custom one. How can I hide the one that is not from the template?

EDIT: another thing I'm struggling with is when I choose the dynamic data to "List of Terms", in case of categories that are a few levels deep (eg. History -> Ancient Civilizations -> Aztecs) all 3 are being displayed.

[ioannissavvidis]

Is this also possible with WooCommerce category pages?