Automatically Setting Category Templates for Subcategories Using the category_template Filter
When developing complex WordPress themes, we often have the need to set different templates for different categories. WordPress’s hierarchy mechanism…
When developing complex WordPress themes, we often have the need to set different templates for different categories. WordPress’s hierarchy mechanism…
When developing WordPress themes, we often need to set individual templates for posts. For example, if a post is in…
Use the category_template filter to assign archive templates to child categories automatically instead of duplicating category-slug.php files.
Automatically load category-based single post templates in WordPress and refine the logic with Yoast SEO’s primary category feature.
A closer look at how WordPress loads template files, why get_template_part is useful, and when helper functions beat raw PHP includes.
See how WordPress template loading works internally and why get_template_part(), get_header(), and load_template() are better than plain PHP includes.