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1. rrswans
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I have created two custom post types for my website called, "art" and "design"

   I have additionally created a series of custom taxonomies called, "color", "media", "project", ect. Both post types share these taxonomies.

   All of this works great. The issue I am having is that throughout my site I am using colors in my header to let the user know where they are. For example, When they are viewing the art-archive.php page everything is yellow. When they are on the design-archive.php page everything is orange. I was able to do this with the single posts as well.

   The problem is with the taxonomy.php page. Since they both use this template I can't change the colors with way I did with the "art-archive.php" template. I tried making a art-taxonomy.php page but that didn't work.

   I know I could go in and build mirror taxonomies for each post-type and then create separate taxonomy-color.php files, but that seems like a lot of work, and difficult to maintain in the future if I want to add more taxonomies.

   Is there anyway to have a single, or maybe 2 taxonomy pages that keep my post-types separate while having independant style? SO that I could query "color" just from "art" and have the resulting page have a different color scheme than if I queried "color" from "design"?

2. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Please refer to the Custom Taxonomy section of the Template Hierarchy Codex entry.

   If you have a custom taxonomy named "color", use a template file named taxonomy-color.php.

   If you have terms such as "yellow" or "blue" in the "color" taxonomy, then use template files named taxonomy-color-yellow.php or taxonomy-color-blue.php.

3. rrswans
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Thanks Chip, I understand that, and maybe that is what I have to do. I'm wondering if I can simplify and create less templates.

   Is there no way to just make a 'taxonomy-design.php' template that will display the results of any taxonomy assigned the custom post type of "design"?

4. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Is there no way to just make a 'taxonomy-design.php' template that will display the results of any taxonomy assigned the custom post type of "design"?

   Again, check the Codex reference. Is there any particular reason you can't use archive-design.php for "design" post-types?

5. rrswans
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I originally searched through the template hierarchy, custom taxonomy and custom post types in the codex before I posted. They don't mention anything about a taxonomy template that pulls directly from post types.

   The design-archive.php is already in use. I've got a few hundred entries. I'm using the taxonomies to narrow that down.

   I think I may just go ahead and make all the taxonomy-color.php templates. Doesn't seem to be a way to relate the post-type with the taxonomy in a query

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