How are category descriptions enabled

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  • September 26, 2014 at 11:24 am #14056
    systeman1949
    Customer

      Hope I’m not wasting anybody’s time with this, but how does one enable category descriptions to display on the front end?

      This template does not show it, or maybe I’ve not done something to set it up.

      Thanks in advance.

      September 26, 2014 at 11:13 pm #14073
      Eric
      Customer

        Hi, do you have a link to the site you’re referring to?

        I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

        September 27, 2014 at 5:30 am #14074
        systeman1949
        Customer

          Hi,

          The site is under development so I cannot give out the URL yet. But I have looked into it further and discovered Epik theme does not show the category descriptions that packaged WP themes do. Instead, it shows the archive heading and intro text for a category.

          Thanks for replying.

          Kindest regards

          September 29, 2014 at 12:37 am #14086
          Eric
          Customer

            Epik is the child theme/design, and the child theme doesn’t have much to do with that unless there is code added in the functions file to override it. It’s the Genesis Framework that handles the functionality for the most part, the child theme handles the design.

            When I added content in the title/description it seems to show up just fine. Are you adding it in the right place? Specifically the “Category Archive Settings” It works fine for me. The first field of the page labeled “Description” is only for the backend/admin of the categories. If you want the categories to show on your site then you’d need to add it to the “Category Archive Settings“.

            I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

            September 30, 2014 at 6:39 am #14107
            systeman1949
            Customer

              Thanks for that.

              I was fooled by WP. When I first set up the categories and descriptions, it was those description that showed up on the front end in the WP default template theme.

              As you kindly mentioned, I added the description to the Category Archive Settings. The great thing is it accepts html. So now I’ve got nice descriptions with images as well, for each category. Can only be good for SEO, I hope.

              Thanks for your help

              September 30, 2014 at 3:13 pm #14110
              Eric
              Customer

                “I was fooled by WP. When I first set up the categories and descriptions, it was those description that showed up on the front end in the WP default template theme.”

                LOL the same thing happened to me 🙂

                I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

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