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by Eddie Moya 5 (3 reviews)

Category Template Hierarchy

Adds parent-category.php, child-category.php, and child-category-{slug|id} templates to the hierarchy and conditional tags to match.

Category Template Hierarchy ranks #16,509 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #1,767 of 8,848 in the Customization category, a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews, and was last updated Mar 24, 2012. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.3 (Current: 7.1.4)
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Updated 14 years ago Last Update on 24 Mar, 2012
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#1,767 of 8,848 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Theme developers who want more granular category-based templates in WordPress. It solves the lack of native template hierarchy support for parent and child categories by adding new template files and conditional tags to detect them.

  • Adds parent-category.php template support
  • Adds child-category.php template support
  • Adds category-slug and category-ID templates
  • is_child_category() conditional tag
  • is_parent_category() conditional tag
  • is_child_of_category() conditional tag
  • is_parent_of_category() conditional tag

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Category Template Hierarchy

No.
Because I only just recently released the plugin. I feel that I've done a decent job of documentation, so I can't guess what people may ask on this broadly applicable plugin.
Please do! Feel free to ask on the tools provided right in the WordPress plugin directory, or on my website eddiemoya.com.
The last version that used the old hierarchical model was 1.0.5, it was tagged as such and can be found in the WordPress directory by looking for Older Versions.
Nope, no one has actually asked, just anticipating.
Bacon.

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