Archive template for taxonomy terms

Question

I have registered a custom post type [equipment] and have a taxonomy of [equipment_type] within the taxonomy I have parent and child categories. For example:

Equipment (Custom post type)

Equipment Types (Taxonomy)

Cameras (Parent term)

• Camera A (Child term)

• Camera B

What I would like to create is effectively an archive page for the taxonomy terms. So when either 'Cameras' or 'Camera A' is selected it shows say 12 posts with title and featured image (links to single post) plus some pagination.

I have tried a standard WP query and Loop and it always ends up showing all of the taxonomies posts in all terms.

I currently have a taxonomy-equipment_types.php template set up to handle the query.

Answer 1

The WordPress Template Hierarchy provides the exact template file that you need: taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php.

So, to create a custom template for the cameras term of the equipment_types taxonomy, you would create a file named taxonomy-equipment_types-cameras.php.

(Note, you can also create a template file for the taxonomy itself; just omit the {term} slug: taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php, or taxonomy-equipment_types.php in your case.)

You can conditionally output content based on hierarchy by querying for either the term parent, via the object properties returned by get_term(), or the term children, via get_term_children().