Is it possible to display archive pages of posts based on their taxonomies, and an archive page of a term in that taxonomy??
For example, i have a site about beauty products, and i write a product review as a post. I want to put it in the ‘hair’ category, and in the taxonomy ‘shampoo’, with the term ‘dry’. I have managed to create an archive page for all posts within the ‘hair’ category, but i cant figure out how i then create a page to show all products that are in ‘hair’ AND with a taxonomy of ‘shampoo’. I would also need a further page showing all products in ‘hair’ AND ‘shampoo’ AND ‘dry’. ie. mysite/hair/shampoo/dry where hair is the category, shampoo is the taxonomy, and dry is the term.
Am i on the right track in thinking i need to create a taxonomy-shampoo.php page? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Patrick.
The Template Hierarchy Codex entry is your friend.
category-hair.phptaxonomy-shampoo.phptaxonomy-shampoo-dry.phpTo display some cross-query between different taxonomies, such as category and a custom taxonomy, such as hair, you’ll need to do a custom query, and display it on your own custom page template, or something similar.
Yes.
Yes, as that’s exactly the way it’s done IIRC.
In case you can’t do that with what’s in out-of-the box, you can always do a custom query (WordPress Codex) in conjunction with overriding your theme either in the theme loader or by registering something within the Permalink/URL space.
Check it, WordPress supports templates for taxonomy archives, both for the taxonomy itself and its individual terms, out of the box: http://codex.wordpress.org/File:Template_Hierarchy.png
But unfortunately, I don’t know how to make a taxonomy for a taxonomy (categories are simply a kind of taxonomy, a default kind). All taxonomies exist unto themselves, in separate permalink structures.
Looking at your example, I want to know, why not just make “shampoo” a sub-category of “hair?” Then you’d get your URL of
mysite/categories/hair/shampoo/dry.