Comments on: How to Display Category-Specific Introductory Content

By: How To Make Your Previously Written Content Valuable Once Again : Performancing

How To Make Your Previously Written Content Valuable Once Again : Performancing — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:57:06 +0000

[...] this in WordPress can be somewhat tricky. Maria’s Guides has a great tutorial on how to create category specific archive pages. This is probably the best option if you do not want to bother with the other methods available. [...]

By: bekabug

bekabug — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:56:23 +0000

I can't believe this post doesn't have 200 comments; I have been looking for this solution for days and days. Thank you :) bekabug's last blog post: Thoughtful Thursday : Spring

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:48:13 +0000

Sorry, WordPress killed the part of my example wrapped in php tags. The line you need is this:

echo category_description();

but wrapped in a php tag, of course.

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:45:21 +0000

It can be even easier if you only need to display just a little blurb of text at the top of a category page. Enter that text into the category description field in WordPress. Then, one little line of PHP in your template will spit out that description.

The archive.php template in most themes already have a condition to check if a category archive is being viewed. Just enter this line under that condition:

It will probably need to be wrapped in paragraph tags or whatever markup needed for your theme.