Title: Taxonomy Templates
Author: Jackson Whelan
Published: <strong>February 22, 2012</strong>
Last modified: July 27, 2022

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Taxonomy Templates

 By [Jackson Whelan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/madjax/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/taxonomy-templates.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-templates/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-templates/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-templates/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-templates/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/taxonomy-templates/)

## Description

Taxonomy Templates allows user selection of a theme’s available taxonomy templates,
much like how pages can select their template.

When additional templates are available, a drop down appears on the edit Category,
Tag and any custom taxonomy pages.

## Installation

 1. Use automatic installer
 2. Activate plugin
 3. Install your taxonomy templates in theme folder. Denoted by ‘Taxonomy Template 
    Name:’ in comments at top of php file.
 4. Visit Edit Category/Tag/Taxonomy to select desired template from drop menu.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Taxonomy Templates” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jackson Whelan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/madjax/)

[Translate “Taxonomy Templates” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/taxonomy-templates)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/taxonomy-templates/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/taxonomy-templates/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/taxonomy-templates/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/taxonomy-templates/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.4

 * WordPress compatability check, still works after a decade!
 * PHP 8 Compatability

#### 0.3.1

 * Check for empty option value.

#### 0.3

 * Now supports parent template inheritance.
 * Bug fix – exit after template include

#### 0.2

Quick fix for undefined variable warning.

#### 0.1

Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.4**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.2.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.0.14**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-templates/)
 * Tags
 * [category](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[custom templates](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-templates/)
   [tag](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/)[taxonomy](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomy/)
   [templates](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/templates/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-templates/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jackson Whelan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/madjax/)

## Support

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