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1. googlebot
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm working on a theme and on the category page I'm displaying the category description inside a styled div container, however when there's no description available for a certain category this div looks pretty darn ugly all empty, I came up with a rudimentary solution but I'm not sure is the proper way, seems to work though.

   <?php if (category_description( $category ) == '') : ?>
   <div>
   <?php else : ?>
   <div class="cat-descr">
   <?php endif; ?>
   <?php echo category_description( $category ); ?>
   </div>

   any other idea to beautify the code? :-)

   Thanks

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Use the Conditional Tags is_category() or 'in_category()` as required in your situation. Also, The Loop article describes styling posts when belonging to different categories.

3. googlebot
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   mmm, I'm not sure I understand your answer, I mean I "know" about conditional tags and I use them to show posts from categories and so on but couldn't find anything about category description or I missed it...

   how would i know and test if a category has a description or not?

   In my case (my php skills are somewhat limited) I just guessed that

   if category_description was equal to nothing ('') do this else do something else.

   The way I have it now it's working but i'm not sure if is the right way to do it :-\

4. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   So you saw that article, but did you see this example?

   is_category('Stinky Cheeses')
   When the archive page for the Category with Name "Stinky Cheeses" is being displayed.

5. groomedmonkey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Don't think you read googlebots's post properly Michel. He is not asking for a conditional dependent on category name but depending on whether a category description exists for the current category. Basically the way he is doing it is basing the conditional on the negative (if description is empty).

   Basically I stripped your code down to this googlebot:

   <?php if (category_description( $category ) == '') : ?>

   <!-- html for when there is no description -->

   <?php else : ?>

   <!-- html for when there is a description -->
   <?php echo category_description( $category ); ?>
   <!-- html for when there is a description -->

   <?php endif; ?>

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