Hi,
You could customize category page via category description.
Take a look at these plugins :
https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/allow-html-in-category-descriptions/
https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/visual-term-description-editor/
If you don’t mind developping, you can look at the template hierarchy to customize your category page with some code
Joy
(@joyously)
Many people use category pages as important landing pages
What? Who does this? The category page is a generated list. There is no editing experience.
Thread Starter
jbph
(@jbph)
@clemart, thanks for the suggestions. But what I am asking is “feature request”. Why can’t categories have the same editing experience as posts and pages? Ideally I would love to be able to do editing of the categories with the Gutenberg Editor.
Joy
(@joyously)
They can’t because it’s a generated page! If you want a Page to represent your category, then create one and use the editor to make it whatever you want. But generated pages are not edited.
Thread Starter
jbph
(@jbph)
@joyously, I think you have misunderstood me. What I am saying is different. When you login to WordPress Admin if you click Posts and the choose to Edit a Post you have a lovely interface and can use the Gutenberg Editor to add blocks and make that Post or Page as you want.
If you go to Categories, Edit -> Category you don’t have a lovely editing experience but instead you have to work in a tiny textarea.
So my original message was saying “Why can’t we have a better editing experience for categories too? Why do Pages and Posts get all the attention?
Joy
(@joyously)
Most people don’t put much into the descriptions, but plugin authors have thought of it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-term-description-editor/
There was another one, but it looks like it’s closed now.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rich-tax-description-editor/
Might be more, also.
You might want to make sure your theme shows the description only on the first page of the archive, to reduce the duplicate content penalty.
