Custom taxonomy template not working

Question

I have created a custom post type named property, and a taxonomy named city is attached to this post type. There are several cities (terms) like toronto, taiwan,dhaka.

I want to create a template which can show all the post under a city. I have created file taxonomy-city.php, but it is not working .

Here is my code for taxonomy-city.php file .

<?php
/*
 * Template name: City
*/
get_header();

?>
<div id="page_content">
        <div class="page-wrapper">

            <?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
            <div id="page_content_wrapper">

                <div id="careers_table">
                    <p class="content_text">asdsd</p>

                </div>

                    <?php endwhile; ?>
                    <?php else : ?>
                            <div class="post">
                                <h3><?php _e('404 Error&#58; Not Found', 'cmeasytheme'); ?></h3>
                            </div>
                    <?php endif; ?> 

            </div>
            <div style="clear:both;"></div>
        </div>
        </div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

It shows everything, but doesn't print out anything inside the loop.

I have visited these link too , but none of them came to any help

• taxonomy-taxonomy-php-is-not-working

• how-to_create-a-custom-template-for-a-custom-taxonomy

• how-to-setup-a-custom-taxonomy-term-template

Answer 1

First of all, a taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php file is an Archive Template and not a good name for a custom template. So if you want to proceed with a custom template, try naming the file with something like template-cities.php and call the file to a Page.

Otherwise, make a simple taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php archive template, and in your case taxonomy-city.php with code like:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="page_content">
    <div class="page-wrapper">
        <div id="page_content_wrapper">
            <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
                <div id="careers_table">
                    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
                        <p class="content_text"><?php the_title(); ?></p>
                    <?php endwhile; ?>
                    <?php // pagination code here ?>
                </div>
            <?php else : ?>
                <div class="post">
                    <h3><?php _e('No City Found', 'cmeasytheme'); ?></h3>
                </div>
            <?php endif; ?>
        </div> <!-- .page_content_wrapper -->
        <div style="clear:both;"></div>
    </div> <!-- .page-wrapper -->
</div> <!-- .page_content -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

And in this way, NO NEED to make any page and call a page template.

Suggestions

Though the suggestions are not related to WordPress, but related to Good practice:

• Try naming you classes hyphen-separated (-), NOT underscore-separated (_). So class like page_content_wrapper would be page-content-wrapper.
• Avoid inline styles, and make a class instead. So the clearing div <div style="clear:both;"></div> can be something like <div class="clearfix"></div> and you can place .clearfix{clear:both} in your external CSS file.
• Use important commenting so that you can have trace of the closing divs etc.