Category Page Description

[domestiquette]

Here I am, doing my best to add to the documentation here.



When you set up a link to a category such as this one, which file would I need to edit to display the category description along with the category title at the top of the page?

Where now it says:

It's All Relative
-------------------------------------------------
(first post)
(second post)

I could have it say:

It's All Relative
And here is my description of this dumb category, which I set in the back end of WordPress when I created the categtory.
-------------------------------------------------
(first post)
(second post)

Thank you,

Wendy

[kingdomgeek]

In archive.php, find this:

PHP Code:

<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>

After it, add this on a new line:

PHP Code:

<?php if (category_description() != "<br />\n") : ?><div id="category_description"><?php category_description(); ?></div><?php endif; ?>

The output can then by styled via ".custom #category_description {}" in your custom.css file.

[domestiquette]

That is awesome - thanks!

Oh, wait - except for the fact that it isn't working... I'll work on it this evening...

[missnyc]

I would like this feature as well. It doesn't work for me either. thanks

[domestiquette]

Bumping to see if anyone knows of a way to do this.

I hope my last post didn't seem rude - I edited later to add the second line; it wasn't intended to be sarcastic but on re-read it sounds a bit that way.

[kingdomgeek]

What about just adding this code:

PHP Code:

<div id="category_description"><?php category_description(); ?></div>

The rest of the code in the previously posted line was meant to prevent the container from appearing if a category doesn't have a description.