Crazy-Awesome Taxonomy Pages

Thank you so much for this podcast! I'd been messing around with taxonomy page theming for hours and was about to give up until I found this video. Perfection.

You actually don't need to create a new content type for the taxonomy descriptions— you can use the description that's included in the native taxonomy metadata. Just include these lines in taxonomy_term_page.tpl.php (or in your view header):


$tid = (int)arg(2);
$term = taxonomy_get_term($tid);
print (filter_xss_admin($term->description));


Again, thanks so much!

great video!

but is it possible to do that with multiple taxonomy terms?

in views everything seems fine (in Argument type i am using term ids) and with

print_r($tids);

in my taxonomy_term_page.tpl.php i get:

Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 3 [3] => 4 [4] => 52 )

so the ids of the taxonomy-terms are there. but how do i display the according nodes?
as i am a newbie with php my guess would be something with foreach...

any help would be awesome!

Very nice and helpful.

I would like only to do the part of adding a description. How do I retrieve the default content - the one which is displayed if taxonomy_term_page.tpl.php would not been added? I have tried @content and $body - none brought the data.

Thanks!

Thanks!!!
Your really great
Thanks

Excellent explanation of how to customize a view to display lists of nodes by term with a description of the term at the top of the view. Superb video!

bob - i love you :)