In the wordpress theme hierarchy, the taxonomy.php file is below index.php, how can this happen?

Question

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I open the category page, and first of all index.php is pulled up instead of taxonomy.php , I randomly found a solution - I renamed index.php to index2.php (it's still empty).

But how can it be that in the WordPress theme hierarchy the taxonomy.php file is below index.php when the category is opened? Because the rules say otherwise...

Answer 1

For categories, taxonomy.php is not used at all