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1. majestictreefrog
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   In my theme I have:

   wp_list_bookmarks('show_description=1');

   this shows the title, the links, but NOT the category descriptions as I hoped. Indeed, outside of this function I can't find any way to access category descriptions.

2. majestictreefrog
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   oh, and I should note that no images for the category have been defined.

3. majestictreefrog
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   anybody?

4. spye
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I know this is an old post, but I was looking for the solution myself, and found a way to do this. All you need to do is copy the wp_list_bookmarks() function from wp-includes/bookmark-template.php into your functions.php file, calling the new function wp_list_bookmarks2() or something like that.

   Then, in the first block of the if() {...} structure, just under $catname = apply_filters... add the following line:

   $catdescr = apply_filters("link_category", $cat->description);

   And in the line below that which has:

   $output .= "$title_before$catname$title_after\n\t<ul class='xoxo blogroll'>\n";

   change it to something like this:

   $output .= "$title_before$catname<span>$catdescr</span>$title_after\n\t<ul class='xoxo blogroll'>\n";

   Or something to that effect so that your description is appearing somewhere. The <span> around it should allow you to style it based on the surrounding classes from whatever's in the $title_before tag.

5. johnnyriss
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Very helpful. Much thanks.
   Here is a link to my full code for this function in case others want to use it.
   http://pastebin.com/9AeikRpu
   I put the description within p tags under the category title.

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