<p>Easily apply templates to your category archive pages and posts with this plugin.</p>
<p>Valid templates are files placed your theme folder with the following code at the beginning of them:</p>
<p>For Post Templates: Template Name: Blog Template</p>
<p>For Archive Templates: Archive Template: Blog Template</p>
<p>Through this plugin’s options panel, you can choose which templates are applied to categories and posts. Even choose their priority over one another. You can even apply a template to an individual post.<br />
Please <a href="http://aarongloege.com/blog/web-development/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-plugin-category-templates/#respond" rel="nofollow ugc">report any bugs</a> you come across.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>


Category Templates

Give your categories and posts their own individual templates.

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<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>use parent template for child category.</li>
<li>use parent template for child page.</li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<ul>
<li>example.com/works/design</li>
<li>example.com/works/illust</li>
<li>example.com/works/photo</li>
</ul>
<h4>Category template hierarchy</h4>
<ol>
<li>category-{slug}.php</li>
<li>category-{id}.php</li>
<li>category-{parent slug}.php //Add by WP Use parent template</li>
<li>category-{parent id}.php //Add by WP Use parent template</li>
<li>category.php</li>
<li>archive.php</li>
<li>index.php</li>
</ol>
<h4>Page template hierarchy</h4>
<ol>
<li>custom template file</li>
<li>page-{slug}.php</li>
<li>page-{id}.php</li>
<li>page-{parent slug}.php //Add by WP Use parent template</li>
<li>page-{parent id}.php //Add by WP Use parent template</li>
<li>page.php</li>
<li>index.php</li>
</ol>
<p>See following for WordPress default template hierarchy.<br />
https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy</p>
<h4>Notes</h4>
<ul>
<li>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’.</li>
<li>You may need to change parent template to handle child data.</li>
</ul>


WP Use parent template

To use parent template for child categories or pages. This plugin patches template hierarchy. This plugin is for who create or customize themes.

Category Templates vs WP Use parent template