Category description

[Martijn]

Hi, thanks for reading.
I want to show a category description at the top of an category archive. Is this possible? For example this page (dutch) i would like to give some more information about that category.

I'n my archive.php I got the following:

<?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
<h2 class="title">Al het nieuws voor de categorie: <strong><?php single_cat_title(); ?></strong></h2>

If I change something here it ofcourse effects all categories.

So I tried it in Post -> Categories where you can add a "Description" and it says "some themes may show it". Well mine doesn't.

What piece of code do I need to add so that my theme does show the category description?

[Utkarsh]

Hi, thanks for reading.
I want to show a category description at the top of an category archive. Is this possible? For example this page (dutch) i would like to give some more information about that category.

I'n my archive.php I got the following:

<?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
<h2 class="title">Al het nieuws voor de categorie: <strong><?php single_cat_title(); ?></strong></h2>

If I change something here it ofcourse effects all categories.

So I tried it in Post -> Categories where you can add a "Description" and it says "some themes may show it". Well mine doesn't.

What piece of code do I need to add so that my theme does show the category description?

Use the plugin exec-php

[sleary]

<?php echo category_description(); ?>

should work.

[Martijn]

Thanks for your replies.

Use the plugin exec-php

I'm using it already, it's for displaying PHP in a post.

<?php echo category_description(); ?>

should work.

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[chipbennett]

Thanks for your replies.



I'm using it already, it's for displaying PHP in a post.



That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

I use this tag, also. Here's my example script (inside the loop, before the post stuff), in context:

 <?php if(is_archive()) : ?>
  <?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
  <?php if (is_category()) { /* If this is a category archive */  ?>
   <div class="cat-subscribe-feed">
    <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/category/<?php $cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[0]; echo $cat->category_nicename;?>/feed/">
     <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/subscribewide.jpg" width="120px" height="29" alt="Subscribe to the <?php echo single_cat_title(); ?> category feed" />
     <?php echo single_cat_title(); ?> category feed</a>
   </div>
   <h2 class="pagetitle">
    <?php echo single_cat_title(); ?>
   </h2>
   <div class="cat-description">
    <?php echo category_description(); ?>
   </div>
  
  <?php }  elseif (is_tag()) { /* If this is a tag archive */  ?>
   <div class="cat-subscribe-feed">
    <a href="<?php echo get_tag_feed_link($wp_query->get('tag_id'), 'rss2'); ?>">
     <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/subscribewide.jpg" width="120px" height="29" alt="Subscribe to the <?php echo single_tag_title(); ?> tag feed" />
     <?php echo single_tag_title(); ?> tag feed</a>     
   </div>
   <h2 class="pagetitle">
    <?php echo single_tag_title(); ?>
   </h2>
   <div class="cat-description">
    <?php     
     echo tag_description();
    ?>
   </div>
  
  <?php }  else {
   if (is_search()) { /* If this is a search */ ?>
   <h2 class="pagetitle">Search Results</h2>
   <?php } ?>  
  <?php } ?>
  <?php endif ?>  

Here's the bit specific to categories:

 <?php if (is_category()) { /* If this is a category archive */  ?>
   <div class="cat-subscribe-feed">
    <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/category/<?php $cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[0]; echo $cat->category_nicename;?>/feed/">
     <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/subscribewide.jpg" width="120px" height="29" alt="Subscribe to the <?php echo single_cat_title(); ?> category feed" />
     <?php echo single_cat_title(); ?> category feed</a>
   </div>
   <h2 class="pagetitle">
    <?php echo single_cat_title(); ?>
   </h2>
   <div class="cat-description">
    <?php echo category_description(); ?>
   </div>
  
  <?php }  

(The first part builds a link for the feed for the displayed category)
And note that it can also be used for tag pages:

 <?php }  elseif (is_tag()) { /* If this is a tag archive */  ?>
   <div class="cat-subscribe-feed">
    <a href="<?php echo get_tag_feed_link($wp_query->get('tag_id'), 'rss2'); ?>">
     <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/subscribewide.jpg" width="120px" height="29" alt="Subscribe to the <?php echo single_tag_title(); ?> tag feed" />
     <?php echo single_tag_title(); ?> tag feed</a>     
   </div>
   <h2 class="pagetitle">
    <?php echo single_tag_title(); ?>
   </h2>
   <div class="cat-description">
    <?php     
     echo tag_description();
    ?>
   </div>
  
  <?php }  

(Likewise, the first part builds the RSS feed link for the tag. Just skip down to the H2 class="pagetitle" and following, for displaying just the Category/Tag title, and description.)

[Martijn]

Oh great idea to use it in tag's also :).

Cheers!