I want my categories to be landing pages, with an index of links to posts under that category. That way i can funnel all the link juice to my category landing pages which will be moneterised.

I would also like to edit thoes pages with the visual editor.

Is this possible.
thank you
Stephen

By default, it uses whatever you have for your date settings under Admin > Settings > General, or you can fix the format on a per-use basis. It uses the same format as PHP's date function, so e.g.
the_time('F j, Y');
gives you Month date, 4-figure year

great post

it's very easy to understand!

i just noticed that commenters in your blog have the option for twitter id

how did you do that?

thanks!

thank you

Yes, there is... depending on exactly what you're trying to do.

Normal category archives
are generated by default. If you want to create a list of them, wp_list_categories() will do that for you,
or if your theme has a widgetised sidebar, there's an inbuilt widget to create a list of category archive links.

Changing the layout for specific categories
If you want one particular category archive to have its own special layout, then you can do that too. You need to make an extra theme file called category-xx.php where xx is the number of the category you want the archive to be for.

(Find the category ID by navigating to Admin > Posts > Categories and then hovering over the link to the relevant category; in the browser status bar, you'll see ....cat_ID=xx - and that's the number you want.)

That would give you a specific page for one category; you can do this for just one category, or a few, or all of them. Any categories which don't have their own individual page like this will use the default archive page from your theme.

The Codex page on template hierarchy will explain a little bit more about how this works, but do give me a shout or leave another comment if you need more help.