custom category pages - category description for Travelify theme

Travelify
1

Is there a way to create a custom category page with the Travelify theme? I have tried the WP Custom Category plugin, but it doesn’t show my custom content and it breaks the category pages, causing them to only display one post.

Specifically, what I am looking to do, is to have some introductory text that is specific to each category at the top of the category archive.

2

One thing you can do is to use WordPress conditional tags and one example using is_category is explained here.

You can also use function called term_description and you can read more about it here.

The basic usage would be like this:

<?php
	// Show an optional term description.
	$term_description = term_description();
	if ( ! empty( $term_description ) ) :
		printf( '<div class="taxonomy-description">%s</div>', $term_description );
	endif;
?>

This outputs description for tags and categories that you can set via WordPress dashboard when editing tags and categories.

3

So if I add my content to the category description and use the code above, it should do what I am looking for? Where do I add the above code? If I do this, do I then need to make a child theme?

Thanks.

4

if you want to make it work via Child Theme then you can use code like this via Child theme functions.php file.

add_action( 'travelify_before_loop_content', 'travelify_category_description', 10 );
/**
 * Show category description on category pages
 */
function travelify_category_description() {

	if ( is_category() ) {

		$term_description = term_description();
		if ( ! empty( $term_description ) ) :
			printf( '<div class="taxonomy-description">%s</div>', $term_description );
		endif;

	}
}

Sample Travelify Child Theme can be downloaded from here if you haven’t created one already.

5

I’d rather not do a Child Theme if possible. So with your first suggestion, where would I put that code for the term_description?

6

Inside functions.php file that you can see inside travelify theme folder.

7

Great. Thanks so much for your help.