shazdeh

Just like the way you can create custom page templates, this plugin enables you to build custom taaxonomy archive templates by adding this bit to the top of your file:
<pre><code><?php
/**
 * {Taxonomy Singular Label} Template: Grid
 */
?>
</code></pre>
where {Taxonomy Singular Label} should be replaced with the singular label registered for the taxonomy (for example “Category” or “Tag”). Now when you’re adding or editing terms in that taxonomy, you can choose the desired template file.
You can safely include this plugin in your theme and ship custom templates for taxonomy archives with the theme.
<h3>Changelogs</h3>
<h4>0.2.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Allow using taxonomy slug in the template header, fix issue with templates not being found in multilingual websites. Much thanks to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkdgs/" rel="ugc">Mkdgs</a> for the fix!</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fix fatal error when using child themes</li>
<li>added “custom_taxonomy_templates” filter for extendibility</li>
</ul>

Custom Taxonomy Templates

Define custom templates for taxonomy archive views.

danaila_iulian

dioneea

NEW Version 2.0.0 brings a great new feature: with some magic, if your theme displays category/term description, then it would be automatically enhanced. 
Are you ready for more? You can customize the template by creating a <code>content-ecp.php</code> file in your theme of choice.
Enhanced Category Pages allows you to create custom category and term pages by managing them using a special custom post type.
Premium code quality ensured by Codacy static analysis: <a href="https://www.codacy.com/app/2wit/enhanced-category-pages" rel="nofollow ugc">grade A</a>.
Features
<ul>
<li>NEW Visual Composer compatible – you can now edit the category using Visual Composer</li>
<li>NEW Genesis Framework compatible</li>
<li>WooCommerce compatible – product categories can be enhanced now</li>
<li>Easy to use for everyone: users, designers, developers</li>
<li>Automatically show enhanced category/term content</li>
<li>Customize enhanced category/term content by creating a <code>content-ecp.php</code> file in your theme of choice</li>
<li>Traverse categories using setup_ec_data that allows now category id as parameter</li>
<li>Enhance any taxonomy: edit any taxonomy term as a custom post</li>
<li>Edit category as a custom post – Enhanced Category</li>
<li>Automatically generates Enhanced Category post type for each category</li>
<li>Transparent synchronization of Enhanced Category and it’s corresponding category</li>
<li>Add any features available to WordPress custom posts</li>
<li>Easy Enhanced Category display on category template using <code><?php $GLOBALS['enhanced_category']->setup_ec_data(); ?></code> (see install section)</li>
<li>Internationalization ready</li>
</ul>
Future Features
<ul>
<li>customize Enhanced Category custom post type capabilities via plugin options</li>
<li>manual selection on enhanced categories</li>
</ul>

Enhanced Category Pages

Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.

Custom Taxonomy Templates vs Enhanced Category Pages