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1. webstergroup
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Does anyone know how to get wp_list_categories to show the descriptions as well as the names of the categories?

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   As far as I know its not straightforward.

   Instead of echoing the output from wp_list_categories to the browser, as normally done, you load it into an array and then process the array with a foreach loop. In that loop you look up the cat descrip for that cat and format how you want all the cat fields displayed.

3. webstergroup
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   *SIGH* I was starting to get that impression by reverse engineering the "Category Icons" plug-in. Can you point me somewhere where I can read about using the array?

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The codex page
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories

   in wp_list_pages, include (echo=0) parameter

   something like

   $cats = wp_list_pages(echo=0&...other params...);
   foreach ($cats as $cat):
   ... code here to process cats ...
   endforeach;

   you can do a print_r($cat) to see the fields in the $cat array

   also see this
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/category_description

5. Copernicus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I believe this thread will give you the proper code for displaying a category list along with each category's description:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/151935?replies=4#post-832204

6. submarine
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   And why not, add the category icon :
   http://www.category-icons.com/2009/06/how-to-display-a-list-of-the-categories/

   :)

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