Title: Category text position
Last modified: November 18, 2020

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# Category text position

 *  Resolved [lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/)
 * (@lemouz)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-text-position/)
 * Hi,
    I’d like to have short text under my category title, then my sub-categories
   or products, then a bigger text for more detailed information on product. This
   will allow to have better SEO without boring visitors at first landing.
 * On product page, this is done with “short description” and “full description”
   boxes.
    How can I do it for categories and sub-categories ? Ideally, I’d like
   not to put too much coding as I am not developper.
 * Thanks for all.
    Here is an example of a page : [https://www.byaeni.fr/categorie-produit/hygiene-salle-de-bains/protege-slips-lavables/](https://www.byaeni.fr/categorie-produit/hygiene-salle-de-bains/protege-slips-lavables/)
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [Missy a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m155y5/)
 * (@m155y5)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-text-position/#post-13679084)
 * Hi [@lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/) –
 * You can add a description to your categories in much the same way you do products.
   If you go to **Products > Categories**, you can edit the category’s details from
   there, including the description.
 * One caveat – not all themes display this description, so it will depend on your
   theme.
 *  Thread Starter [lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/)
 * (@lemouz)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-text-position/#post-13679116)
 * Thanks for your answer, I know this and I already did it as you can see on this
   page : [https://www.byaeni.fr/categorie-produit/hygiene-salle-de-bains/protege-slips-lavables/](https://www.byaeni.fr/categorie-produit/hygiene-salle-de-bains/protege-slips-lavables/)
 * The thing is I’d like to have part of the text before the products and sub-categories
   and part of the text after the products. Because if I put 800 words before the
   products, visitors will go out of my site.
 * I precise I use storefront theme (with child-theme)
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/).
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/).
 *  Plugin Support [mouli a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouli/)
 * (@mouli)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-text-position/#post-13710366)
 * [@lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/)
    You will have more control
   over the display if you use a shortcode to display the category products. You
   can then add whatever text you want above and below the shortcode a you describe.
   You can read about short codes that display categories here: [https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#section-13](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#section-13)
 * In your case the shortcode may look like this:
    `[product_category category="
   364"]`
 * I hope that helps you to figure it out.
    Feel free to get back to us if you have
   further questions.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [mouli a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mouli/).
      Reason: typo
 *  Thread Starter [lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/)
 * (@lemouz)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-text-position/#post-13713580)
 * If I understand well, to use this short code, I have to create my own category
   pages, one for each category and sub-category.
 * Right noww, I only use what woocommerce does itself.
    My categories appears in
   my front page (I created) and shop page (created by woocommerce) Then when user
   click on the category image, it goes to the page created by woocommerce (example:
   [https://www.byaeni.fr/categorie-produit/enfance/](https://www.byaeni.fr/categorie-produit/enfance/))
   All text and images in this pages are from the frontoffice (Woocommerce/Products/
   Categories)
 *  Thread Starter [lemouz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemouz/)
 * (@lemouz)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-text-position/#post-13771307)
 * So anyone can confirm (or not) that there is no way to do it without creating
   my own category pages ?

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