I want to set up a template specifically for the
Growing a Website category, which shows items in date order (oldest first) rather than reverse date order (newest first).
First, I need to create a category template with the name category-n.php (where n is the numeric id of the particular category, found by looking at the Categories, within Admin). It's probably easiest to copy category.php to start with. I've done that, and checked that my category is definitely using this template.
Now, to modify it to provide the different layout that I want, it seems important to understand
The Loop. It also seems important to understand the
WordPress functions.
After some searching and false starts, I found one function which appeared to do, quite simply, what I wanted -
queryposts(). And, when I used the Default theme, adding the simple line
query_posts($query_string . "&order=ASC");
immediately after the get_header() function, I achieved exactly what I wanted - have a look at the
Growing a Website category now.