Title: GYS Themed Categories
Author: Luke Rumley
Published: <strong>June 23, 2011</strong>
Last modified: May 2, 2012

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# GYS Themed Categories

 By [Luke Rumley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lukerumley/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gys-themed-categories-2.2.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gys-themed-categories-2/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gys-themed-categories-2/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gys-themed-categories-2/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gys-themed-categories-2/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gys-themed-categories-2/)

## Description

This plugin allows you to assign a theme to a specific category. It is actually @
MikeLopez’s code, I just tweaked it to work on WordPress 3+.

This version adds child theme capability, and the ability to assign a theme to a
new category as it is created. It also ignores pages and the home page, so the current
theme is applied there.

## Screenshots

[⌊Select your theme under the category editor, and click Update. Simple!⌉⌊Select
your theme under the category editor, and click Update. Simple!⌉[

Select your theme under the category editor, and click Update. Simple!

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload `gys-themed-categories-2` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Navigate to the Categories page and edit a category.
 4. Choose a theme from the Category Theme drop-down menu
 5. Click Update!

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[plugin broken](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-64/)󠁿

 [ffwebdesigner](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ffwebdesigner/) September 3, 2016

as of wp 4.4 unfortunately this great plugin doesn’t work no more. categories and
sub categories are styled with the set up theme, but single posts now always appear
in standard theme layout.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gys-themed-categories-2/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“GYS Themed Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Luke Rumley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lukerumley/)

[Translate “GYS Themed Categories” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gys-themed-categories-2)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gys-themed-categories-2/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gys-themed-categories-2/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gys-themed-categories-2/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gys-themed-categories-2/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.4

 * Tested in WP 3.2-3.3.2
 * Adds child theme capability
 * Adds the ability to assign a theme to a new category as it is created
 * Now ignores pages and the home page, so the current theme is applied there
 * Added plugin banner image 🙂

#### 2.3

 * Slightly modified by Luke Rumley (@lukerumley) to work in WordPress 3+

#### 2.2

 * Coded by Mike Lopez

## Meta

 *  Version **2.5**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.3.2**
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[themes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/themes/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gys-themed-categories-2/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gys-themed-categories-2/reviews/?filter=5)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gys-themed-categories-2/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Luke Rumley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lukerumley/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gys-themed-categories-2/)

## Donate

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