[wp-hackers] Custom Page Template - can't see the forest through the trees

[Otto]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Mike Walsh <mpwalsh8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sort of.  I want a page that contains the posts from a particular category
> which is not the same as a navigational tab that is essentially just a link
> to a particular category.  This slight difference matters because the
> display of the content going through the category hierarchy is excerpts
> where what I want is the full post just like they appear on the front page
> of the site.

Well, that's just a matter of copying your index.php over to
category-23.php, really. Then that category will show the same as your
normal index, ie, not excerpts. While the other categories will
continue to show with category.php, presumably as excerpts only.

-Otto