Showing description in category pages in Ethos

[organicallergyrelief]

Okay, I have literally tried every other thread who seems to have the same issue, yet it doesn’t fix it for me. Everyone is saying “yayyyy” but I’m here like “I don’t see a archives.php or category.php or landmark or ANYTHING”

THIS IS REALLY AGGRAVATING WHY DOESNT THE CATEGORY DESCRIPTION JUST SHOW AUTOMATICALLY

Or at least have a little switch that says “yes, display the description”?

I’m not a computer expert by any means, but that just seems really efficient to me, no?? After all we are accomplishing here?

But anyways, my website is https://organicallergyrelief.com/ and my category descriptions are showing. Please help me before I throw something out a window lol

[christian]

Hey @organicallergyrelief,

The Category Description is theme dependent and X do not support for it.

Custom development is required to integrate it to X which regretfully is outside the scope of our support. I could only give you some guidance. You need to first understand the best practices in customizing X.

The category description can be outputted using this instruction. If you want to put it in the landmark header, the file you will need to copy from X is _landmark-header.php located in \framework\legacy\cranium\headers\views\ethos. You can override that template by copying it to your child theme’s \framework\views\ethos

Thanks.

[organicallergyrelief]

This advice is not helpful because I still do not see an archive.php or category.php anywhere. I do not see a landmark-header.php

Can someone help me with that?

[paul.r]

Hi,

The Ethos stack does not display Category Description by default.

To make it display the category description, you need to do the following.

1. Install and activate child theme - https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/setup-how-to-setup-child-themes/57
2. Login to FTP(https://filezilla-project.org/download.php) and create file _landmark-header.php in wp-content/themes/x-child/framework/legacy/cranium/headers/views/ethos and copy the code belkow into that file.

<?php

// =============================================================================
// VIEWS/ETHOS/_LANDMARK-HEADER.PHP
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Handles content output of large headers for key pages such as the blog or
// search results.
// =============================================================================

$disable_page_title = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_x_entry_disable_page_title', true );

?>

<?php if ( ! x_is_blank( 1 ) && ! x_is_blank( 2 ) && ! x_is_blank( 4 ) && ! x_is_blank( 5 ) ) : ?>
  <?php if ( is_page() && $disable_page_title == 'on' ) : ?>
  <?php else : ?>

    <?php if ( x_is_shop() || x_is_product() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo x_get_option( 'x_ethos_shop_title' ); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( x_is_bbpress() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( x_is_buddypress() ) : ?>
      <?php if ( x_buddypress_is_component_with_landmark_header() ) : ?>

        <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
          <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo x_buddypress_get_the_title(); ?></span></h1>
        </header>

      <?php endif; ?>
    <?php elseif ( is_page() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark entry-title"><span><?php the_title(); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( x_is_portfolio_item() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php the_title(); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( is_search() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php _e( 'Search Results', '__x__' ); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( is_category() || x_is_portfolio_category() || x_is_product_category() ) : ?>

      <?php

      $meta  = x_get_taxonomy_meta();
      $title = ( $meta['archive-title'] != '' ) ? $meta['archive-title'] : __( 'Category Archive', '__x__' );
      $subtitle = ( $meta['archive-subtitle'] != '' ) ? $meta['archive-subtitle'] : __( "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as ", '__x__' ) . '<strong>&ldquo;' . single_cat_title( '', false ) . '&rdquo;</strong>';
      ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo $title; ?></span></h1>
        <p class="p-landmark-sub"><span><?php echo $subtitle ?></span></p>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( is_tag() || x_is_portfolio_tag() || x_is_product_tag() ) : ?>

      <?php

      $meta  = x_get_taxonomy_meta();
      $title = ( $meta['archive-title'] != '' ) ? $meta['archive-title'] : __( 'Tag Archive', '__x__' );

      ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo $title ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( is_404() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php _e( 'Oops!', '__x__' ); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( is_year() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php _e( 'Post Archive by Year', '__x__' ); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( is_month() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php _e( 'Post Archive by Month', '__x__' ); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( is_day() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php _e( 'Post Archive by Day', '__x__' ); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php elseif ( x_is_portfolio() ) : ?>

      <header class="x-header-landmark x-container max width">
        <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo x_get_option( 'x_portfolio_title' ); ?></span></h1>
      </header>

    <?php endif; ?>

  <?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>