Can I customize to have multiple archive-listing.php ?

Yes, if you have a specific taxonomy and/or term that doesn’t require that info or you want to display that info on, you can use the archive-listing.php as a template, copy it to your theme folder, and rename it according to the Template Hierarchy. i.e. taxonomy-taxonomyname–taxonomyterm.php and then customize it to your needs.

Also, instead of editing class-listings.php to add property details, you should be using a filter added to your theme’s functions.php. A write up on how to do this is available here: https://www.agentevolution.com/how-to-2/change-wp-listings-property-details/

Hi, thank you for your reply.

changing the file name per template hierarchy didn’t work for me.
i’ve copied and paste to change the archive-listing.php file to
taxonomy-property-types-commercial.php in the theme folder, but didn’t do anything.

instead it now grabs the archive-listing.php from the plug-in folder.

please let me know if there is something else i have to do to make this link work.

thank you so much!

Hm… i Tried changing the archive-listing.php to followings names, but all are not working…

taxonomy-property-types-commercial.php
taxonomy-listings-property-types-commercial.php
listings-property-types-commercial.php
archive-property-types-commercial.php
archive-listing-property-types-commercial.php

please help.

perhaps there is a file in the plugin folder is somehow controlling it to not use WP’s taxonomy rule?

Yes, there is. In the plugin /includes/functions.php there is a template_redirect filter.

It’s not recommended to edit the plugin files, so instead you should remove that filter in your theme’s functions.php file and add a new filter… like so:

// Remove WP Listings filter
remove_filter( 'template_include', 'wp_listings_template_include' );

// Add custom filter that removes the redirect for taxonomy pages
add_filter( 'template_include', 'custom_wp_listings_template_include' );
function custom_wp_listings_template_include( $template ) {

	$post_type = 'listing';

	if ( is_post_type_archive( $post_type ) ) {
		if ( file_exists(get_stylesheet_directory() . '/archive-' . $post_type . '.php') ) {
			$template = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/archive-' . $post_type . '.php';
			return $template;
		} else {
			return dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/views/archive-' . $post_type . '.php';
		}
	}

	if ( is_single() && $post_type == get_post_type() ) {

		global $post;

		$custom_template = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_wp_post_template', true );

		/** Prevent directory traversal */
		$custom_template = str_replace( '..', '', $custom_template );

		if( ! $custom_template )
			if( file_exists(get_stylesheet_directory() . '/single-' . $post_type . '.php') )
				return $template;
			else
				return dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/views/single-' . $post_type . '.php';
		else
			if( file_exists( get_stylesheet_directory() . "/{$custom_template}" ) )
				$template = get_stylesheet_directory() . "/{$custom_template}";
			elseif( file_exists( get_template_directory() . "/{$custom_template}" ) )
				$template = get_template_directory() . "/{$custom_template}";

	}

	return $template;
}

Hi, Thanks for that info.
I copied that entire code into my theme’s functions.php, but it did not change anything. However, because your info about having a filter led me to visit plugin’s functions.php file.

There I physically deleted out where the “add_filter( ‘template_include’…” code resides.

and suddenly everything worked.

I know you suggested not to touch plugin’s file and add above code to theme’s functions.php, but at the moment this seems like the only solution.

I’ve also tried adding:

// Remove WP Listings filter
remove_filter( 'template_include', 'wp_listings_template_include' );

to a line after the plugin’s functions.php file and it worked also. it’s just when I paste this code into Theme’s functions.php, it doesn’t work.

perhaps the reason is that plugin’s functions.php file code loads after theme’s functions.php?

please let me know.

thank you!

OK. Yes that’s true. You’ll need to put that code into it’s own function and hook it into the plugins_loaded action hook:

add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'wp_listings_override' );
function wp_listings_override() {
// Add previously posted filters code here
}

This still doesn’t work.
plugin’s functions.php file still loads after the theme’s functions.php.
so it overrides the override.

It seems like modifying the plugin’s functions.php file is the only way…

Try using the after_setup_theme hook instead of plugins_loaded.

there you go!
it works now.
the code I inserted was:

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'wp_listings_override' );

function wp_listings_override() {
// Remove WP Listings filter
remove_filter( 'template_include', 'wp_listings_template_include' );

thank you!

Excellent. We’ll look into making this easier in the future. The way it works now is anything that is a listing taxonomy will use the archive-listing.php file. It could be done better but would require a lot more logic in that template_include filter.