Ahhhh! I think I get it. You're trying to stylize your category pages with more information than what's coming up automatically.
If you need them images attached to your excerpts in thumbnail view. I've been able to add images using "Thumbnails for Excerpts". But that plugin had a conflict with another when I updated so I used "Get the Image".
If you really want to create a new page template you have to grab & combine code from 3 sources in ATA. The...
header.php
index.php
footer.php
You can combine the 3 give them a new template title (change the "LP" in the code below to whatever name you want to give it) and you'll see a new drop down box with that title included.
I created a new template that is exactly the same as the original except the header.php has a dynamic header rather than the original ATA header. Because nothing changed in the footer I left it as the original index.php was set up. From what I understood you'd have to combine the header.php & index.php to form a new template since both have important elements of the code, which makes the page display. I may be wrong...
As I mentioned the code below changes the header of the page giving it a Dynamic Header so if you download that plugin you're good to go. Otherwise you want to change the code between
PHP Code:
<!-- Header -->
<td id="header" colspan="<?php echo $bfa_ata['cols']; ?>">
<?php show_media_header(); ?>
</td>
<!-- / Header -->
Here's the code if it helps...
PHP Code:
<?php
/*
Template Name: LP
*/
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
<?php /* if index.php or another page template (copied from index.php) was not used
(i.e. by a plugin such as WPG2), the global $bfa_ata would be empty */
global $bfa_ata; if ($bfa_ata == "") include_once (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_get_options.php'); ?>
<?php if ( $bfa_ata['css_external'] == "External" ) { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $bfa_ata['get_option_home']; ?>/?bfa_ata_file=css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<?php } ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_meta_tags.php'); ?>
<?php /* get all options: */ include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_get_options.php');?>
<?php if ($bfa_ata['favicon_file'] != "") { ?><link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo $bfa_ata['template_directory']; ?>/images/favicon/<?php echo $bfa_ata['favicon_file']; ?>" /><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_single() OR is_page() ) { ?><link rel="canonical" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" /><?php } ?>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Atom Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' ); ?>
<?php if ( function_exists('wp_list_comments') AND is_singular() ) { wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); } ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_header'] != "" ? apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_header']) : ''); ?>
<?php if ($bfa_ata['pngfix_selectors'] != "") { ?>
<!--[if IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $bfa_ata['template_directory']; ?>/js/DD_roundies.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">DD_roundies.addRule('<?php echo $bfa_ata['pngfix_selectors']; ?>');</script>
<![endif]-->
<?php } ?>
</head>
<body <?php body_class(); ?><?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_tag'] != "" ? ' ' . apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_tag']) : ''); ?>>
<?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_top'] != "" ? apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_top']) : ''); ?>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">
<table id="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<colgroup>
<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colone" /><?php } ?>
<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col2'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colone-inner" /><?php } ?>
<col class="coltwo" />
<?php if ( $bfa_ata['right_col2'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colthree-inner" /><?php } ?>
<?php if ( $bfa_ata['right_col'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colthree" /><?php } ?>
</colgroup>
<tr>
<!-- Header -->
<td id="header" colspan="<?php echo $bfa_ata['cols']; ?>">
<?php show_media_header(); ?>
</td>
<!-- / Header -->
</tr>
<!-- Main Body -->
<tr id="bodyrow">
<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col'] == "on" ) { ?>
<!-- Left Sidebar -->
<td id="left">
<?php // Widgetize the Left Sidebar
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Left Sidebar') ) : ?>
<div class="widget widget_categories"><div class="widget-title">
<h3><?php _e('Categories','atahualpa'); ?></h3>
</div>
<ul><?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li='); ?></ul>
</div>
<div class="widget widget_archive"><div class="widget-title">
<h3><?php _e('Archives','atahualpa'); ?></h3>
</div>
<ul><?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?></ul>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</td>
<!-- / Left Sidebar -->
<?php } ?>
<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col2'] == "on" ) { ?>
<!-- Left INNER Sidebar -->
<td id="left-inner">
<?php // Widgetize the Left Inner Sidebar
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Left Inner Sidebar') ) : ?>
<!-- no default content for the LEFT INNER sidebar -->
<?php endif; ?>
</td>
<!-- / Left INNER Sidebar -->
<?php } ?>
<!-- Main Column -->
<td id="middle">
<?php
//Code automatically inserted by Featurific for Wordpress plugin
if(is_home()) //If we're generating the home page (remove this line to make Featurific appear on all pages)...
if(function_exists('insert_featurific')) //If the Featurific plugin is activated...
insert_featurific(); //Insert the HTML code to embed Featurific
?>
<?php /* If there are any posts: */
if (have_posts()) : $bfa_ata['postcount'] == 0; /* Postcount needed for option "XX first posts full posts, rest excerpts" */ ?>
<?php /* This outputs the next/previous post or page navigation.
This can be edited at Atahualpa Theme Options -> Style & edit the Center column */
bfa_center_content($bfa_ata['content_above_loop']); ?>
<?php /* The LOOP starts here. Do this for all posts: */
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $bfa_ata['postcount']++; ?>
<?php /* Add Odd or Even post class so post containers can get alternating CSS style (optional) */
$odd_or_even = (($bfa_ata['postcount'] % 2) ? 'odd-post' : 'even-post' ); ?>
<?php /* This is the actual Wordpress LOOP.
The output can be edited at Atahualpa Theme Options -> Style & edit the Center column */
bfa_center_content($bfa_ata['content_inside_loop']); ?>
<?php /* END of the LOOP */
endwhile; ?>
<?php /* This outputs the next/previous post or page navigation and the comment template.
This can be edited at Atahualpa Theme Options -> Style & edit the Center column */
bfa_center_content($bfa_ata['content_below_loop']); ?>
<?php /* END of: If there are any posts */
else : /* If there are no posts: */ ?>
<?php /* This outputs the "Not Found" content, if neither posts, pages nor attachments are available for the requested page.
This can be edited at Atahualpa Theme Options -> Style & edit the Center column */
bfa_center_content($bfa_ata['content_not_found']); ?>
<?php endif; /* END of: If there are no posts */ ?>
<?php bfa_center_content($bfa_ata['center_content_bottom']); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>