How to theme taxonomy term main page?

By johnnyd on 10 Apr 2007 at 15:28 UTC

I'm trying to theme all the taxonomy main pages, but I can't figure out how to theme just the content area of the taxonomy page. I edited node.tpl.php and that did exactly what I wanted, but that affects all nodes, not just taxonomy nodes. Using the path conventions on this page: http://drupal.org/node/104316 I thought I could just make a copy of node.tpl.php and rename it node-taxonomy.tpl.php and be off to the races, but no dice. I can create page-taxonomy.tpl.php, but that themes the entire page, not just the content area. I even tried page-node-taxonomy.tpl.php, page-node-taxonomy-term.tpl.php, node-taxonomy.tpl.php, node-taxonomy-term.tpl.php and none of them worked. I don't want to be specific on the term number because I want to theme all taxonomy main pages (i.e. that page that lists off all the nodes tagged with that taxonomy term). Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

You need to use

IrnBru001 commented 11 December 2007 at 23:27

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solved

johnnyd commented 11 April 2007 at 13:35

I used the following code in my template.php file to solve the problem:

if ($hook == 'node') {
   if (arg(0) == 'taxonomy') { 
      $vars['template_file'] = 'node-taxonomy'; 
   }
}

I then copied my node.tpl.php to a file named node.taxonomy.tpl.php, modified it to suit my needs, and put node.taxonomy.tpl.php in my theme directory.

node-taxonomy.tpl.php

Anonymous (not verified) commented 11 May 2007 at 01:08

I then copied my node.tpl.php to a file named node.taxonomy.tpl.php

I think that should read node-taxonomy.tpl.php -- at least that's what worked for me.

If this don't changes

karlisson commented 27 October 2007 at 19:49

If this don't changes anything, try putting the
return $vars;
after the second closing bracket.

This should go in the

cogat commented 28 November 2007 at 22:56

This should go in the _phptemplate_variables function, like this:

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {
	print "Hook: ".$hook;
	switch ($hook) {
    case 'node':
   		if (arg(0)== 'taxonomy') {
			$vars['template_file'] = 'node-taxonomy';
		}
      break;
  }
 
  return $vars;
}

Different templates by type for term page

jessa_d commented 13 December 2007 at 01:13

I extended this to the following:

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {

	switch ($hook) {
		case 'node':
			if (arg(0)== 'taxonomy') {
				$vars['template_files'] = array(
					'node-taxonomy',
					'node-'.$vars['node']->type.'-taxonomy'
				);
			}
		break;
	}

	return $vars;
}

Now, I can use node-taxonomy.tlp.php as the default template for a node on a taxonomy term page, and override that on a per-type basis in much that same way that drupal core lets you define node-[node type].tlp.php templates.

override that on a per-type

wescoughlin commented 28 December 2007 at 17:15

override that on a per-type basis

How would you do this?

Say node-taxonomy.tlp.php is your defualt, and for a specific taxonomy term you wish to use a different node template, what would be the name. (i.e. would it be similar to node-taxonomy-[term name].tpl.php ?)

I think I figured out what

wescoughlin commented 28 December 2007 at 17:24

I think I figured out what you ment....

I believe it would be node-[node type]-taxonomy.tpl.php which works perfect for me.

Drupal 6 changes this. Here's what I did...

pbindagorge commented 9 May 2008 at 23:09

I am using Drupal 6.x as a large article repository, so I wanted my taxonomy pages just to show the title and a custom CCK "link_comments" field (i.e., just a page with a list of links to the articles on my site, organized by taxonomy tags).

I read this thread and http://drupal.org/node/132442 (which documents the changes for Drupal 6), but I couldn't get it to work. So I found the devel module, which is AWESOME, and was quickly able to see what new page and node templates ("candidates") I needed to create to do this without having to write any PHP code in the template.php file.

For me this ended up being two new files: page-taxonomy-term.tpl.php and node-[your node type].tpl.php. My node type is "ocic_article", so my file was node-ocic_article.tpl.php. From there I was able to use devel module to see which variables were available to me in addition to $content.

I hope this helps someone!

The above suggestions

Gerben Zaagsma commented 10 August 2008 at 17:47

The above suggestions somehow don't work for me. When I put the code above in the template.php file, the new node-taxonomy.tpl.php template is not called.

If I do not modify the template file but follow the suggestion of pbindagorge the result is an empty page being displayed with only a taxonomy term.

It seems all pretty simple but cannot find out what goes wrong.

Any help appreciated,
Gerben

Page-taxonomy

massimoi commented 19 January 2009 at 16:39

Hi,
in my case it worked with page-taxonomy.tpl.php and not node-taxonomy.tpl.php

Hope it helps
Massimo
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Drupal 6 code to change Taxonomy pages

OneTallShort commented 25 April 2009 at 05:32

This code overrides the title and teaser for the taxonomy result pages with page_title and nodeword module fields. Keep in mind that as written, it doesn't reset the $node->title and $node->teaser variables, or the $node->content array, but that shouldn't cause many problems since MYTHEME_preprocess_node should be last out the door using $node content. If you want to make them match, just add some lines at the end to override those variables, eg $node->title = $vars['title']

 function MYTHEME_preprocess_node(&$vars, $hook) {
  $node = $vars['node'];
  if (arg(0) == 'taxonomy'){
    if (!empty($node->page_title)){
		$vars['title'] = check_plain($node->page_title);
	}
	if (!empty($node->nodewords['description'])){
     $vars['content'] =  $node->nodewords['description'];
	}
	else {
 	$vars['content'] = rtrim(strip_tags($node->teaser),150);
	}	
  }

}

Gregg Short
GShort.com, LLC Web Marketing and Design
gregg -at- gshort dot com

use node-taxonomy.tpl.php in Drupal 6

jeffschuler

Boulder, Colorado

commented 21 August 2009 at 17:46

In order to have node-taxonomy.tpl.php used for display of nodes on taxonomy term pages, I added the following function to template.php:

<?php
function phptemplate_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
  if (arg(0) == 'taxonomy') {
    $suggestions = array(
      'node-taxonomy'
    );
    $vars['template_files'] = array_merge($vars['template_files'], $suggestions);
  }
}
?>

Thank you.

unfeasible commented 25 September 2009 at 01:26

You are officially my hero. Thank you so much for this.

Absolute Hero

youlikeicecream commented 24 November 2010 at 00:21

This is DEFINITELY the right way to do it for Drupal 6

great solution jeffschuler :-)

maxman commented 19 August 2011 at 08:31

Hi, your solution works perfect and saves me lot of time. I modified it to support multiple content types.

<?php 
function [themename]_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
  if (arg(0) == 'taxonomy') {
    $suggestions1 = array(
      'node-taxonomy'
    );
    $suggestions2 = array(
      'node-'.$vars['type'].'-taxonomy'
    );
    $vars['template_files'] = array_merge($vars['template_files'], $suggestions1, $suggestions2);
  }
}
?>

For everyone who is not a programmer, you should insert the name of your template in the function. For garland the function would named: garland_preprocess_node. Then put the whole function into the template.php file in the directory of your template. If nothing happens try an cache-flush by clicking "flush all caches" in your "admin-menu".

If you dont want to do all this stuff, i have written a very basic module, which generates the template suggestion for you http://pieceofcode.rabbid.net/taxo_template_suggestion.zip

The module is based on jeffschuler`s snippet and you can use it by your own risk.

Again much much thanks to jeffschuler for posting your snippet :-)

Why it's duplicating the

Anonymous (not verified) commented 23 September 2011 at 05:42

Why it's duplicating the nodes

Hello Johnnyd

ltdung80 commented 21 November 2008 at 07:33

I need to build my website like your idea. But I can't . and I see your contribution very well. I want to clear your way to do.

your node.tpl.php file how to create ? may be, you can help me to see your pages. or help me to find your code.

my coding php language is not very well.

Thanks.

For 6.1.1

cascad commented 28 May 2009 at 13:52

Please give me the code for 6.1.1

You don't need one! D6

TapSkill commented 6 July 2009 at 02:58

You don't need one!
D6 automatically reads the template files as far as I'm aware.
Just make sure your file is node-taxonomy.tpl.php.

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