Thanks to @Rarst for guiding me to the right direction. Using his direction I googled again and again and found a blog article of WerdsWords with an excellent bit of code snippet filtered to category_template
as Rarst suggested me, and the good news is: it worked for my cause:
function new_subcategory_hierarchy() {
$category = get_queried_object();
$parent_id = $category->category_parent;
$templates = array();
if ( $parent_id == 0 ) {
// Use default values from get_category_template()
$templates[] = "category-{$category->slug}.php";
$templates[] = "category-{$category->term_id}.php";
$templates[] = 'category.php';
} else {
// Create replacement $templates array
$parent = get_category( $parent_id );
// Current first
$templates[] = "category-{$category->slug}.php";
$templates[] = "category-{$category->term_id}.php";
// Parent second
$templates[] = "category-{$parent->slug}.php";
$templates[] = "category-{$parent->term_id}.php";
$templates[] = 'category.php';
}
return locate_template( $templates );
}
add_filter( 'category_template', 'new_subcategory_hierarchy' );
Link to the article:
- Force sub-categories to use the parent category template — werdswords.com