[Resolved] Create archive page of custom taxonomy categories

[Craig]

Hello,
I’m struggling with creating an archive page for my custom taxonomy – resource_categories.

I want to display/hyperlink the resource categories on this archive page – not the actual posts. The idea is to see all the categories on page, and visitors can drill down into each category from there.

Is this possible? Do I have to create a custom page template?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Craig

[Leo]

Hi Craig,

I would recommend giving Tom’s WP Show Posts plugin a shot and see if it does what you want:
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/

If not can you provide a quick example of what it should look like?

Let us know 🙂

[Craig]

Hi Leo,
Yep, I’ve got a license for WP Show Posts Pro…great plugin, but I don’t think it’ll help me on this one.

Basically, this is a ‘directory’ with multiple businesses in each category. I need an archive page that displays links to the various resource categories – the taxonomy terms.

Resource Categories (a custom taxonomy)

• Accounting Services
• Architects/Build/Design
• Advocacy
• Associations
• Bank Products & Services
• …etc.

When clicking on Architects/Build/Design

Architects/Build/Design

• Acme Architects (title is a link to their ‘post/page’)
• Donovan Designs
• Buildings by Bob
• …etc.

Hope that helps. I was hoping to leverage native taxonomy pages, but that doesn’t seem to work.

Thanks!

[Tom]

So this is a page which lists out custom taxonomy titles with their posts titles below?

[Craig]

Hi Tom
The ‘landing’ page would be a display of all of the resource categories (a custom taxonomy): accounting services, architects, etc. (posts are not displayed on this page…just the taxonomy term)

Clicking on the resource category title takes you to a page with all of the posts. This page is already done…just a taxonomy archive page.

It’s the first landing page – all of the custom taxonomy terms. Didn’t realize it’d be so difficult to construct.

I’m guessing I have to build something based on this:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/

Thanks

[Tom]

Ah yes, you’re right. Here are some pretty good examples: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/#comment-288

[Craig]

Great. Thanks Tom…I’ll take a look at these.

[Tom]

The last example in that comment should have everything you need 🙂

[Dan]

Hi Tom

Could I ask that with the example you referred to in the link – does that code need to be added to functions.php or to a new archive.php template?

Cheers

[Tom]

Those would go into your archive.php template.

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