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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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