If I am understanding you have a taxonomy that is shared across multiple post types? And you want to make a custom template for each post type using the WordPress’s templating system. Which isn’t possible. What you could do is add conditionals to your taxonomy-disrupt-categories.php to check what the current post type is and load … Read more
Have a look at this article in the the WordPress Theme Developer Handbook. You should create a template in your theme named category-unicorns.php where unicorns is the slug for the parent category you want this template to be used for. You can also create a template file category-5.php where 5 is the id of the … Read more
As you can see in the hierarchy flowchart on the page that you linked to, Site Front Page will choose front-page.php before falling back to behaving like a normal page: So if you want to have a specific template for the front page template of your theme you need to make those changes to front-page.php, … Read more
They just mean that you can create your own template for the plugin in a child theme so that the template isn’t changed when the plugin is updated. This is both the ‘upgrades safe’ and ‘industry standard’ technique being described. What specific file you need to create, and what needs to be in it, is … Read more
So my question is, should I assume that this is a theme-based functionality, where some themes provide support for files with the template-{slug}.php naming? Correct. Or do all WordPress applications allow for such files? If so, where can I find instructions on how to use template-{slug}.php files? Or is there another way these days to … Read more
You’re looking for the “custom post type archive template”. That’s archive-{post_type}.php, or in your case archive-explore.php: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/custom-post-type-template-files/
This question leans towards getting some subjective answers, as I think it’s a matter of personal preference. The built-in editor works just as well as any other text editor. That goes for any of your theme files, not just header.php. The benefit of using an external editor (like Notepad++ and using FileZilla to FTP your … Read more
Why not just use the product_page shortcode? In the page content: [product_page id=”31″] In code in the home page template: <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[product_page id=”31″]’); ?>
Your terminology is a bit scrambled here. A custom taxonomy is a taxonomy which you manually register through register_taxonomy. In your case that is ait-dir-item-category. Any “category” (as you call it) you create in your custom taxonomy is called a term. In this case events. To create a custom page for events, you need to … Read more
If you’re using static pages, try using is_page() for your conditionals. Let’s assume your static pages have slugs, “customers”, “vendors”, and “services”: <?php if ( is_page( ‘customers’ ) : get_sidebar(‘customer’); elseif ( is_page( ‘vendors’ ) ) : get_sidebar(‘vendors’); elseif ( is_page( ‘services’ ) ) : get_sidebar(‘services’); else : get_sidebar(); endif; ?> But I agree with … Read more