Category index page

[HowardB]

Summary

You have to create a new page with the title "Features" (slug "features").
I have done this for the six categories and they can be seen as in this example
https://spainonthisday.com/history

However I've been unable to populate them with the pages

so, with the 'slugs' created you wrote
But you can also use one template with $categoryKey = $page->slug().

Can you now please explain is that line a single template - or where do I place it and how is it triggered
and then I suppose I have to edit the pages concerned to select the template in advanced options but currently they don't appear to be selected

Hopefully I'll be able to solve it soon

Many thanks

[Edi]

Step by step...

1) Modification index.php

Modify the template index.php of the theme Andy.

Use the following (line 63):

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<?php
   if ($WHERE_AM_I == 'page') {
      if ($page->slug() == "features" {
         include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'category.php');
      } else {
         include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'page.php');
      }
   } else {
      include(THEME_DIR_PHP.'home.php');
   }
?>

instead of

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<?php
// Bludit content are pages
// But if you order the content by date
// These pages works as posts

// $WHERE_AM_I variable detect where the user is browsing
// If the user is watching a particular page/post the variable takes the value "page"
// If the user is watching the frontpage the variable takes the value "home"
if ($WHERE_AM_I == 'page') {
   include(THEME_DIR_PHP . 'page.php');
} else {
   include(THEME_DIR_PHP . 'home.php');
}
?>

[HowardB]

Many thanks

Unfortunately exchanging the code stopped the front page from loading

the category php files i have placed in bi-themes/andy/php/
are
sightseeing.php
recipes.php
profiles.php
letters_from_spain.php
history.php
features.php

also there are
page.php
home.php
sidebar.php
navbar.php
footer.php

$categoryKey = $page->slug().is not being used as far as I can see

[Edi]

Unfortunately exchanging the code stopped the front page from loading

Sorry, there was an error in the code.

It has to be

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if ($page->slug() == "features") {

instead of

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if ($page->slug() == "features" {

[HowardB]

Solved

I made the index pages by hand and saw that I needed to use /category/ for the next page to appear at the bottom

I've also found a simple set of jscript to give a random image at the top of the page

https://spainonthisday.com/history

<center><script type="text/javascript">
//Javascript Created by Computerhope https://www.computerhope.com/
//store the quotations in arrays
var images = [],
index = 0;
images[0] = "<img src='/images/gallery1.jpg'</a>";
images[1] = "<img src='/images/gallery2.jpg'</a>";
images[2] = "<img src='/images/gallery3.jpg'</a>";
images[3] = "<img src='/images/gallery4.jpg'</a>";
images[4] = "<img src='/images/gallery5.jpg'</a>";
images[5] = "<img src='/images/gallery6.jpg'</a>";
images[6] = "<img src='/images/gallery7.jpg'</a>";
images[7] = "<img src='/images/gallery8.jpg'</a>";
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * images.length);
document.write(images[index]);
//done
</script></center>