WP Use parent template

Features

• use parent template for child category.
• use parent template for child page.

If you have works category with some child categories as followings, you may want to use ‘category-works.php’ for all three child categories. You need to copy as ‘category-design.php’ and the rest in default template hierarchy. WP Use parent template patches the template hierarchy to use parent template for these child categories. And also pages too.

• example.com/works/design
• example.com/works/illust
• example.com/works/photo

Category template hierarchy

1. category-{slug}.php
2. category-{id}.php
3. category-{parent slug}.php //Add by WP Use parent template
4. category-{parent id}.php //Add by WP Use parent template
5. category.php
6. archive.php
7. index.php

Page template hierarchy

1. custom template file
2. page-{slug}.php
3. page-{id}.php
4. page-{parent slug}.php //Add by WP Use parent template
5. page-{parent id}.php //Add by WP Use parent template
6. page.php
7. index.php

See following for WordPress default template hierarchy.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

Notes

• Able to use only one generation age template. ‘category-child.php’ is able to use as parent template for grandchild in the example of ‘example.com/parent/child/grandchild’.
• You may need to change parent template to handle child data.