Custom Header Content for Blog Category Archive Summary Pages

[Jen6566]

Hi! I found some information here: Header on Blog Page - but that ticket was closed already. If I create custom headers, can I choose to apply different headers to different category archive pages like the following?

For example: http://2020.scrapbookcowgirl.com/category/scrapbook-kits/ - I’d love to assign specific content (text and graphics) at the top of the archive’s summary page so we can introduce the topic of the Category and what it’s about.

Is there a best-practice approach for this? PLMK - thank you!

[prakash_s]

Hello @Jen6566,
Thanks for writing to us
Sorry, It is not possible at the moment. For now, you can only set your header as global and it should display on archive pages as well

Please have a look at the screenshot below.

Thanks

[Jen6566]

The SEO company I hired is telling me that it’s really important to have some kind of keyword-rich copy to introduce each category archive. So just having the same thing on every page does not help. There’s NO WAY whatsoever to create a unique intro paragraph for each of my top-level category archive pages? Are there plugins that can do this or will I have to hire someone to do it custom?

Either I have an SEO consultant giving me bad suggestions, or we need to make it easier to implement the types of things that Google and the other Search Engines want to see.

Do you have any suggestions for me on how to actually achieve what I’m trying to do? Or is my SEO guru a nut for suggesting I even try to do this in the first place?

Thanks!

[marc_a]

Hi @Jen6566,

To add Custom Header Content for Blog Category would require customization and it is outside the scope of our theme support. Regretfully, we can’t help you to customize your website, please consult a 3rd party developer to customize your archives pages or you can avail our One where it will answers all your questions.

Also, we’re creating a Layout Builder now to allow the users to build a custom archive and single pages. That means you won’t need custom code in the future.

Hope that helps and thank you for understanding.

[Jen6566]

I checked out that Layout Builder article you pointed to. It’s dated June 2nd, and it ends by saying “With respect to timeline, I’ll have more concrete info to share next month.” It’s July 28th, so it’s actually been almost 2 months without an update. When will you guys be ready to give us an ETA on these new features? It sounds like the new Layout Builder might help me include custom content above the posts list for my category archives. If you can confirm that it will be able to do what I’m asking - and that it will be released within a couple of months - I’ll just wait for it. But I want 100% confirmation that it will allow me to do what I’m asking about. Please let me know? Thanks!

[tristup]

Hi @Jen6566,

Regretfully, we don’t have any ETA for that currently, please stay tuned for the succeeding releases.
For now you can you can create a child theme and try the suggestions given in this thread: Category Page / Custom Header

Remember that the suggestion in the above mentioned thread will work if copied as it is and don’t conflict with any existing code.
Please note that the code provided serves only as a guide to help you get started custom coding on your own if there’s no option offered in our theme or the products we bundle.
We do not provide support for custom codes that means we can’t fix it in case it conflicts with something in your site nor will we enhance it.

Thanks

[Jen6566]

What about something like this: https://michaelbourne.ca/assign-pro-header-search-results-page/1084/

Would that process work? It was posted in 2017, so I’m not sure if it’s viable.

I also found this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates - would something like that work?

PLMK? Thanks!

[tristup]

Hi @Jen6566,

The referred thread is explaining exactly what is in your example URL.
And regarding the category template, you can create teamplates for catgeories as explained in the URL.
Still you need to add the code to get the custom Header in your category pages.
To check the category pages you can use is_category function as condition.
You can learn more on this function from here:https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_category/#user-contributed-notes

Hope this helps.

Thanks