How Can I Override the Drupal 7 Taxonomy Page Template?

Hi there, I shared the same issue. I just created a portfolio using Taxonomy and Content Types on Drupal 7. I noticed that there is a template file called "taxonomy-term.tpl.php" in the "modules/taxonomy" directory, copied it to my custom theme directory but I could not discover when it is used - you just said that it's used for describing a term, thanks.

Over that, I am afraid of having to use Views module (afraid to use such powerfull and complex module for a trivial task), if I need to change the ordering rule for Taxonomy items - rendering alphabetically instead od publish date.

Any help?

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There is a code snippet for Your template.php to do this :

<?php
function YOURTEMPLATE_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  if (arg(0) == 'taxonomy' && arg(1) == 'term' && is_numeric(arg(2))) {
    $tid = arg(2);
    $vid = db_query("SELECT vid FROM {taxonomy_term_data} WHERE tid = :tid", array(':tid' => $tid))->fetchField();
    $variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page__vocabulary__' . $vid;
  }
}
?>

I was inspired by this post for Drupal 6.
http://adaptivethemes.com/page-template-suggestions-for-taxonomy-vocabs

Depending on what you want to achieve, you might just be able to alter the display of the teaser for a particular content type.

The taxonomy page displays the nodes in a teaser view. Go to the 'Manage display' settings for your content type, click on the Teaser tab, and you can select which fields you wish to display.

(Of course, if you're after changing the order of display, then you are going to need to delve into the template.php or views solutions described above).

You may also try this module: http://drupal.org/project/tvi
Using views to override the default taxonomy page.
Thanks!

Subscribing.

It's certainly aggravating that there are no theme hooks for lists of things. There really ought to be a theme_preprocess_nodelist function hook and equivalent theme_nodelist[--source[--type]] template hooks. Just like there ought to be built in pages for listing contents of a given content-type (and I believe the two holes in extensibility are closely related). Views is powerful, but it's incredibly overpowered for so many simple things that should be achievable without any contrib modules at all. It would be nice to avoid that configuration-driven beast once in a while. Luckily, sometimes you can.

You can cheat your way around the lack of node listing (for taxonomy pages, at least) using HOOK_preprocess_block() like so:

function HOOK_preprocess_block(&$vars) {
	
	// add support for uniquely theming taxonomy term pages (the whole content, not just the lousy term fields)
	$term = @$vars['elements']['term_heading']['term'];
	if(@$term['#theme'] == 'taxonomy_term') {
		$vid = $term['#term']->vid;
		$vname = $term['#term']->vocabulary_machine_name;
		$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'block__taxonomy_term__' . $vname;
		$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'block__taxonomy_term__' . $vid;
		$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'block__taxonomy_term';
	}
}

Then create your block template like so:

// this template is used when theming the list of nodes in a taxonomy term page
// and depends on block theme override in HOOK_preprocess_block() for taxonomy term pages

// this will use the appropriate template for the taxonomy term display
print render($variables['elements']['term_heading']);

// this will render the teasers the same as before, but now within our grasp
// equivalent to print render($variables['elements']['nodes']); 
foreach($variables['elements']['nodes'] as $key => $node) {
	if(is_numeric($key))
		print render($node);
}

// we need the pager too
print render($variables['elements']['pager']);

Now you can do all the nice things you'd expect full theming control to enable like adding the pager to the top of the page, putting html between nodes, or creating special node views that output a table row or a list item, etc. (by altering the #view_mode property) and wrap that output in appropriate html.

function hook_menu_alter(&$items) {
  $items['taxonomy/term/%taxonomy_term']['page callback'] = 'my_taxonomy_term_page';
}

function my_taxonomy_term_page($term) {
  $build = taxonomy_term_page($term);
//do you magic here
  return $build;
}

You can do it with this module : Taxonomy display