Archive template for taxonomy terms

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I have registered a custom post type [equipment] and have a taxonomy of [equipment_type] within the taxonomy I have parent and child categories. For example:

Equipment (Custom post type)

Equipment Types (Taxonomy)

Cameras (Parent term)

  • Camera A (Child term)

  • Camera B

What I would like to create is effectively an archive page for the taxonomy terms. So when either ‘Cameras’ or ‘Camera A’ is selected it shows say 12 posts with title and featured image (links to single post) plus some pagination.

I have tried a standard WP query and Loop and it always ends up showing all of the taxonomies posts in all terms.

I currently have a taxonomy-equipment_types.php template set up to handle the query.

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I want to document this because I just found the answer recently.

The problem with having taxonomy is that most developers have the mindset of expecting the taxonomy to be seen inside the post_type url of: 

http://hostname/post_type/taxonomy_term

Instead, you are going to find the url in:

http://hostname/taxonomy_slug/taxonomy_term

This means that we often may be creating the template correctly as 

taxonomy-taxonomy_slug-taxonomy_term.php

But the right way of using it is to expect it inside the url 

http://hostname/taxonomy_slug/taxonomy_term

To view the correct url for the taxonomy, we can use 

get_the_term_list($post->ID,'taxonomy_slug')

And test wherever the link is going to point to.

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