Wordpress: display categories and taxonomies with custom archive

Question

I'd like to display

• category News (that contains only standard posts) with archive.php

and

• category X (that contains only custom post type) or taxonomy Y with archive-custom.php

is it possible?

Answer 1

If you look at the template-hierarchy, I'm sure it is possible:

http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png

Following the hierarchy convention, it should be:

• category-x.php -> is automatically used for that category
• taxonomy-y.php -> is automatilally used for that taxonomy
• archive.php will be used for News if no more specific template is available.