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I have themed my category.php file so it now displays all posts that belong to the category that was clicked. The URL looks like [www.example.com/category/news/]. This is good and correct.

When I go to [www.example.com/category/] I am expecting to find a Category index page that lists all created categories but I receive a 404.

I have looked in the WP Codex and have not found anything that can help me create a Category index page. Is this possible? If so how do I go about starting? Please forgive me if this has already been answered as I may not be asking the right things.

NOTE: I know that I will be using the wp_list_categories function so that is not the question.

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1 - Create a custom template file in your theme e.g "my-custom-template.php"

2 - Create a page from the dashboard, and in the page attributes box(Right sidebar), select the custom template you've juste created as a Model.

3 - use wp_list_categories to get the list of your available categories...

hope this helps you out.

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  • Thank you for your response. I had given thought to this but I wanted to check and see if there was a function or built in WP method I had not seen that I could use to achieve this result.
    – Peter
    Commented Oct 12, 2018 at 15:42
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    @Peter you welcome, I have never heard about a function doing that, instead there is some plugins that can do this... I think it's better you do it like I suggested above, because you will have a full control about the rendered html...
    – Rachid Chihabi
    Commented Oct 12, 2018 at 16:00

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