How to custom category template based on category?

Question

My blog have 2 categories: Photos and Texts.

I would like do customize the category template so that when it renders Photos post's, I want to show a thumbnail gallery and when it renders Texts post's, I want show only the excerpt.

There is an way to do this without hardcoding on category.php? Or, at least, how is the best way to do this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

create category templates; i.e. category-photos.php and category-texts.php; starting with a copy of the code from category.php. you will still need to hard-code the changes in each template.