Best practice for handling custom category/archive designs

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Hi all,

I’m looking for some guidance on the best practice for managing custom category/archive designs.

On a development site, I currently have around 10-15 categories (though this may grow over time to around 30+). I am planning to create a custom archive template which will handle most of those categories. However, for some, I will want a slightly different design.

I suspect that, using conditions, I can dictate what shows when. So is it best practice just to create custom templates for those categories? Or should I just have one archive template, and customise it using section includes or similar?

Thanks!
Andy

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Hi @alphawhisky , If you want to change multiple sections, create a separate template. If you want to change specific parts, use conditions for the sections you want to modify.

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That’s really helpful! Thank you, @Ultron!