Why does a new taxonomy term get created when I assign an existing term to a post?

Thanks to @Milo for the solution. I deleted all the defaults to condense the code, and then changed the ‘meta_box_cb’ parameter to ‘post_categories_meta_box’, and it did indeed give me a tag-style metabox. As an aside, that’s not exactly what I envisioned, so I ended up using CMB2‘s taxonomy_radio field to get what I was after … Read more

Display a grid of taxonomy terms at root taxonomy page

After researching some more I’ve given up trying to use the taxonomy template and opted for a plugin to amend the permalinks. I followed some of the advice from this similar question: Taxonomy archive with same slug as custom post type? Currently I am using an amended archive template for the custom post types and … Read more

Dynamic Template file for subpage

The taxonomy term should helps you, see the documentation. The possibilities taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php tag-{slug}.php tag-{id}.php Your example tag-about.php See the template hierarchy for tag for a deeper documentation about this feature. So it is possible to have a specific template without coding, a plugin.