Taxonomy archive page listing terms instead of posts

Question

Is it possible to show list of taxonomy terms in archive page instead of the post list? Via modifying the query and not temper with theme templates?

I have a taxonomy archive that I want to display list of terms from another taxonomy, because they are linked via term meta.

Is this possible to achieve?

Answer 1

Not without messing with templates, no.

All WordPress pages are based on a query for a post or posts. If you want to list terms the only way to do that is a custom template that queries the terms and lists them.