Taxonomy

Scenario: You have a Views page or block that needs to display contents which are grouped or categorized/classified by a taxonomy term. In my case I have a list of contents (content type sponsors) that needs to be grouped and displayed in this order: Major Sponsors, Partners, Sponsors. For example in above screenshot.

Such a scenario might include cases when you need to show a public message intended for users to signup and register to avail restricted contents, such as:

In some instances, you may want to restrict your views page (in this case to permit only selected roles to view contents categorized in certain taxonomy terms). You also, however, will want some text available and viewable publicly on the same Views URL or page. To do this, you may follow these simple steps.

Use Taxonomy Term Google Maps module to get a Google Map from fields using Taxonomy Terms. It simply provides an option to select the terms defined under each vocabulary. This just uses Google APIs. The APIs return the geometry.location of term title and marking its position on Google map

Scenario / Useful if you have:

Use case: 

TVI to use customized View display generated from the Taxonomy term (Content) template

Issues: 

Off the box from the template Taxonomy term (Content), without additional contextual filters and relationships, the View does not seem to output or work properly when using any of the following:

BX Slideshow
FlexSlider
Grid
Jump menu
Slideshow
Superhero Portfolio
Table

You may consider using PHP for this.

1. Go to your Views
2. Header > Add
3. Select Global: PHP
4. Use PHP snippet below to display the current term description
5. You may use additional fields as necessary, arguments, arrays, etc.

<?php $current = taxonomy_term_load(arg(2)); ?>
<?php if ($current): ?>
    <div class="taxonomy-description">
        <?php echo $current->description; ?>
    </div>
<?php endif; ?>

Views can do this. Views is a UI for sql searches so you are setting the definition for the query that will be made of the content database.

1. Create a view to display a taxonomy term with a page with a path configured along this line category/%. The % is a wildcard that will make the view respond to any value applied in the URL that matches this format.

2. Set up your display and any filters desired.

We all know by now Drupal 7 Views is powerful enough to filter and display dynamically any content in various and flexible ways, and the options are endless. It's just a matter of how and where you want it set up.

Scenario:

• You have a Content Type (Node), let's say a content type called "Blogs" where content items added may be "Article about Drupal 7", "Article about Drupal 8", "Article about Joomla", "Article about Magento", and list goes on and etc.
• You have a friendly URL based structure (probably using a Path Auto module generated URL aliases for your content types, content nodes, taxonomy vocabulary and terms)
• You have a Taxonomy and Terms setup such as: "Blog Category" (Vocabulary), then listed under this are terms such as "Drupal", "Joomla", "Magento", and etc.
• You want to display all blog contents in your block for this to show on any blog sections, listings or blog pages - no problem you can do that with the filter criteria alone (filtering by Content Type), then under Structure > Blocks adjust this block to show where needed (show in specific URLs only among other choices)
• You want to display all contents "tagged" or categorized under a specific term in your block

How to Use Contextual Filters to show Blocks dynamically according to Taxonomy Term

1. Set-up your block to display content, fields, etc. as required - format settings, fields settings, may also include setting up Relationships to show fields from other Content Types, entities, etc.
2. Under Contextual Filters, add Taxonomy term: Name
3. Under "When the Filter Value is NOT Available", choose "Provide default value"
4. Under "Type", choose "Raw Value from URL" - this is due to your requirement to show blocks according to for example /blogs/category/drupal (this URL being the term listing or feed for "Drupal")
5. In our example, "Path Component" is set to 3, because we want to target the term "drupal" in the URL /blogs/category/drupal (drupal being in the third placement of the URL)
6. Check "Use path alias"
7. Save then test by typing in drupal in your preview
8. Enable the block in Structure > Block, then viola!

1. You have a Views for content and it seems inserting a taxonomy term is not available from the field list filter. By default, only options unique or related to Content are available by default, and taxonomy term options seem missing or limited. We need to make these available from the options as well.
    
2. In your Views page, add a relationship - choose Content: Taxonomy terms on node
   

If for some reason you do not need or want to use Views in generating custom output of a taxonomy term pages or listings, use template overwriting or overrides. Copy page.tpl.php into your theme folder and rename it page--taxonomy.tpl.php. Proceed customizing template page as needed, ensuring you clear browser and flushing registry cache.

Example below is how to disable node title of taxonomy term which is a duplicate of a preferred custom title, image and text entered in the term description field.