title: In wordpress, how do I make the default archive function run?
body: <p>I have made a category archive page called category-blog.php.  However I need now to make this page a custom template for a page, the page works fine when simply browsing to mydomain.com/blog, because wordpress does some sort of query I guess before running this template. What I need to know is what is this query so I can run it before it hits my template page?  I need so that the pagination etc works  before looping through the results of the query.  </p>
  
  <p>Hope this makes sense, it's difficult to put down in words.</p>