[integrisParticipant]

Hello –

Can someone tell me how I can have my Renew child theme display the category’s name and description on the category page instead of the text “Category Archive”?

I’ve set up a child theme, and I imagine this is a fairly simple edit to the function.php page… I just have no idea what it would be

Thanks in advance!
-joe

[ChristopherModerator]

Hi there,

Please put this code inside function.php

<?php if ( is_category() ) : ?>

<?php

  $meta     = x_get_taxonomy_meta();
  $title    = ( $meta['archive-title']    != '' ) ? $meta['archive-title']    : __( 'Category Archive', '__x__' );
  $subtitle = ( $meta['archive-subtitle'] != '' ) ? $meta['archive-subtitle'] : __( "", '__x__' ) . '<strong>&ldquo;' . single_cat_title( '', false ) . '&rdquo;</strong>';

  ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Hope it helps.

[integrisParticipant]

Thanks for the code, but it didn’t do anything.
Any other suggestions?

Much appreciated,
-joe

[RadModerator]

Hi there,

Have you tried editing your categories and changed their title and sub title?

Admin > Posts > Categories then choose a category then add your title and sub title.

Thanks.

[integrisParticipant]

> Have you tried editing your categories and changed their title and sub title?

Yes.

The “Archive Title” displays on the category page, regardless of whether or not I use your code. But I cannot get the description to display.

Any other suggestions?

Thank you,
joe

[CousettMember]

Try adding this instead

<?php if (is_category()) { ?>
<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for the '<?php echo single_cat_title(); ?>' Category</h2> <br /> <?php echo category_description(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

[integrisParticipant]

Thanks for the code, but no luck.

I tried simply testing “is_category” and also couldn’t get it to work:

<?php if ( is_category() ) { ?>

<p>This is a category</p>

<?php } ?>

Any other suggestions?

Thank you,
-joe

[Kosher KMember]

Hi Joe,

Sorry for the confusion,

To change the category title, you need to copy and edit this file to your child theme x/framework/views/renew/_landmark-header.php.

Then you’ll see something like this, from line 57 to 66

<?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__' );

            ?>

            <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo $title; ?></span></h1>

You can then change it to something like this

<?php elseif ( is_category() || x_is_portfolio_category() || x_is_product_category() ) : ?>
<h1 class="h-landmark"><?php single_cat_title(); ?> </span></h1>
<p class="cat-desc"><?php echo category_description(); ?></p>

Hope that clarifies,

Have a great day

[integrisParticipant]

Perfect – just what I needed – thanks so much!
-joe

[DarshanaModerator]

Glad we were able to help

[sndesignParticipant]

This was helpful – Thank you!

[ChristopherModerator]

You’re welcome.

[MolmediaParticipant]

Thanks for the help!

I have 2 questions:

1 | Is it possible to show the post thumpnails/excerpts above the category content instead of below?
2 | Is it possible to use cornerstone or shortcodes in the category content? Now i can only place content in the category with the standard wordpress editor..

Thanks in advance!

Hans

[RadModerator]

Hi Molmedia,

1. Sure possible, but instead of adding <p class="cat-desc"><?php echo category_description(); ?></p> to x/framework/views/renew/_landmark-header.php, it should be added at /x/framework/views/global/_index.php

Like this,

<?php pagenavi(); ?>
<?php if ( is_category() ) :?>
<p class="cat-desc"><?php echo category_description(); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

2. You can’t use cornerstone, but yes, shortcode could be possible and you may change your code to
this.

<?php pagenavi(); ?>
<?php if ( is_category() ) :?>
<p class="cat-desc"><?php echo do_shortcode( category_description() ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Thanks!

[MolmediaParticipant]

Thanks for the quick response, It all worked great!

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