Similar to the Archives page template created in Creating an archives page template, a Taxonomy Navigation page template can be very useful to your site visitors. With the introduction of custom post taxonomies in WordPress 2.8, WordPress users have more options than ever when it comes to classifying their content. A car enthusiast's site may have posts classified by Make, Model, or Transmission Type. Wouldn't it be useful to be able to navigate by those things in addition to the standard post tags and categories?
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Custom taxonomies are amazingly powerful and quite easy to put in place. We'll use a small snippet of code for testing purposes later, but if you want more information on how to use them, see Justin Tadlock's excellent post about custom taxonomies at http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28.
In this recipe, you'll learn how to create a page template that allows visitors to browse by any taxonomy that...