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1. leandrocorrea
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello,
   I'm having trouble dealing with sub-categories templates. Right now, for diferent category IDs, I use different template files, such as category-1.php, category-2.php, category-3.php, and so on. That works fine.

   But when displaying posts from a sub-category, WordPress go straight to category.php template file. All I need is a way to make WordPress choose the parent category template file when displaying its sub-categories and all future new sub-categories to be created.

   Example: Make all sub-categories of category ID 3 to use the category-3.php template, and NOT category.php template.

   Can anyone help me? :)

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   See:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH/MyPlugins#Use_Parent_Category_Template

3. MK009
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Michael, it seems the plugin makes values from custom fields disappear. I understand the original plugin had this issue too, as two people mentioned here:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/230590?replies=12

   It would be great if this could be resolved. This must be a very common requirement. The only other option is heaps of subcategory php files, all exactly the same other than their file name. :/

4. MK009
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I put your code into a filter in functions.php instead and it then works with custom fields:

   add_filter('category_template','my_category_template_filter');
   function my_category_template_filter(){
   
   	$cat = get_query_var('cat');
       $category = get_category ($cat);
   
   	if ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/category-' . $category->cat_ID . '.php') ) {
   		$file = TEMPLATEPATH . '/category-' . $category->cat_ID . '.php';
   	} elseif ( file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/category-' . $category->category_parent . '.php') ) {
   		$file = TEMPLATEPATH . '/category-' . $category->category_parent . '.php';
   	}
   
       return $file;
   }

   Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, as I have almost zero idea how actions / filters work. I did see someone filtering the category template for other reasons (to run names instead of ID's in the file names) so assumed this would work too.

5. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This plugin seems to work okay:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/elevate-parent-category-template/

6. MK009
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That one also has the custom fields disappearing problem according to the last poster here:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/230590?replies=12

7. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I installed and tested with custom fields in a category template at version 2.8. Don't know what more to say.

8. leandrocorrea
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks all for your help, I'll make some tests and return with feedback.

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