Comments on: Creating a page template that lists all of your WordPress taxonomies

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:03:33 +0000

Sorry, I retract my question. I should have read this more carefully: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/03/13/page-templates-the-untapped-potential-of-wordpress

I’m not really good at following instructions. For other ADD people like myself, it’s just a page that you need to create, and assign that to a template taxonomy-actors.php or something. Then in that template you can do whatever you want with a Loop, static text, clouds, other tomfoolery, etc.

If I create an /actors page, and I have /actor/tom-hanks… would it be useful to have an /actor (singular) page as well and that points to the same template? That way I could avoid some 404s. Or I guess it could be a rewrite rule to permanently force the /actors URL.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:29:13 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out how to make the taxonomy page show up. Could you give me any tips? Like if I had /actor/tom-hanks, I know how to do that. But what if I want a page called /actors that lists all actors?

By: Connex Enviromental

Connex Enviromental — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:56:55 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial!

By: Coafuri

Coafuri — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:27:48 +0000

Good tip. I replace my plugin with your script. Very easy. Now i have only 24 Plugins.

By: Knat

Knat — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:30:55 +0000

Hi, thanks for all your great Wordpress guides.

I’ve been reading your guides about Taxonomies quite a few times now.

I have a movie site and i want taxonomies for Actors, Directors and Studio.

This works fine so far, i can even get all actors to show using the tag_cloud.

My biggest problem is that all my taxonomies (when clicked) end in 404 Not Found.

Do i need to make some kind of template for the taxonomy ? or do i have to make a template for each term inside the taxonomy ? That would be a lot of templates if i had to do that for each actor.

Can you please point me in the right direction.. i want to show all movies with that actor if the actors name is clicked.

I’ve read all of your guides but still have not found the solution for this, so i guess there must be something i missed somewhere.

Cheers,

Knat Simon

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:13:38 +0000

Justin is there way to show taxonomy as list instead of wp_tag_cloud?

By: Edward de Leau

Edward de Leau — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:44:36 +0000

while im typing… what I was thinking is that taxonomies are related or more or less the same within a specific domain as requirement types / traceability types. If you spend some time with e.g. Rational RequisitePro you see a pyramid unfold itself of requirement types. E.g. software teams start out with lists of “requirements” but only after a while start to categorize them in TYPES e.g. non functional requirements / use cases / release / actor and so on… and they all are related to each other. The funny thing is that those requirement types as an instance “a requirement” are then again coupled to other systems like a workflow system so that a specific requirement is then linked to a Request like a defect. which is again a type. traceability is then important here: you could find the chain up by constantly asking why, why, why. e.g “movie” : why do i buy the movie. “because i have hobby movies”. why do i have hobby movies. because i want to have fun etc… you could organize an otherwise chaotic household in some more structure by starting out letting them have “tags” (like a software team which simply has “requirement”) and slowly improve a household by organizing these tags in types. The next step is to link these things to other systems e.g “contact” is automatically coupled to a household crm system and “todo” to a todo application. Instantly. It would improve households. They can start out with simply a “blog” and the more content is going in there the more the need will rise to organize it thus improving it.

By: Edward de Leau

Edward de Leau — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:17:01 +0000

I just wanted to let you know that i enjoy reading you blog, hmm that sounds like a spam entry but especially the taxonomies have so much potential that probably a fork of wordpress itself could be based on it.

it has the potential to integrate a lot with a lot especially when objects (code) are linked to taxonomy terms.

i was thinking myself of creating a crm system based on physical .vcf cards (there are some open source libs) using these concepts right around wordpress. “contact”, “household”, “address” etc…

By: Shane - Inspiring Your Success

Shane - Inspiring Your Success — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:38:35 +0000

Hi Justin,
Would it be possible to use these as navigation? For example, genre is the parent, which would be in the navigation bar, and as a drop down menu would be the different genres?

Or can this not be done at this point?

By: Kristian

Kristian — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:23:56 +0000

Justin – i came to think of something you might know of!

On my site im using 4 taxonomies:
Season, ingredients, origin and type of meal.

Know im planning on making a “wikipedia” of fruits and vegestables?
What would be best for me and the users?
Using the existing ingredients tags, or make some new under the taxonomies fruits and vegestables?
Do you know what I mean?

Question number 2:

Is there a way in options theme, that i could use the tabs function to display recipes?
tab1: Recipe by origin, tab2: recipe by ingredients, or something like that using the taxonomy?