Making parent category archive page different from child archive page

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by sixrfan, Apr 7, 2011.

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    I've setup the following categories:
    Parent Category
    - Child Category A (contains post Test Project 1)
    - Child Category B (contains posts called Project 2 and Project 3)

    Here are the category pages:
    Parent Category
    Child Category A
    Child Category B

    The child category/archive pages work the way I want them to work, which is to display the post title and custom thumbnail picture(designated by a custom field).

    However the parent category/archive page works the same way. But what I really want the parent category/archive page to do is display the names of the Child Categories and the custom thumbnail pics from the first post in those child categories. So if you were on the parent category page it would show a "Child Category A" link and pic from Project 1 and next to it, it would show a "Child Category B" link and pic from Project 2.

    Please advise how I can create a second archive page to designate as the one that the parent category archive should use.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    sixrfan, Apr 7, 2011 IP