The Category Template: My categories don't appear at all

Have you got any code to share with us?

This is all that I would know to show you, I'm in the middle of a lesson but in the video that I'm on (The Category Template) everything seems to appear correctly.

This is what I have in category.php:

```<?php get_header(); ?>

<div class="grid_12 omega clearfix">

<h1>Category: <?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

        <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'post' ); ?>



<?php endwhile; else: ?>

    <p>There are no posts or pages here.</p>


<?php endif; ?> 

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>```

not sure if it is a problem in another page or what? pretty lost here

^^^ that didn't come out right for some reason

<?php get_header(); ?>


<div class="grid_12 omega clearfix">

<h1>Category: <?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>

    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

            <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'post' ); ?>



    <?php endwhile; else: ?>

        <p>There are no posts or pages here.</p>


    <?php endif; ?> 

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

There's two options:

1) You run a loop that asks for a specific category's posts or an array of categories. 2) Which is what I think you're doing, you need to put a link in a menu somewhere to that category.

If you look at http://ultimategamingparadise.com you'll see under news & reviews in the menu, lots of links. They're all selected from categories in menus in the admin area. Then WP template hierarchy looks for my category.php file to seek instruction on how to render the data. If you've got multiple post types, it can start to get tricky but that's the basic prinicpal. You're meant to use a category-{post-type} file for each post type but I've found a way to get around that, and I have no idea why it works. Something to do with WooCommerce. Zac Gordon would probably know.

I think that answers your question, at least, I hope it does and gets you on your way! :)

How is it that you are accessing the category page on the front-end of the site? Even just a basic loop should display your category posts.