Title: Modification categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Modification categories

 *  [Walnoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/walnoot/)
 * (@walnoot)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modification-categories/)
 * Hi all,
 * I would like to modify the categories page. Now it displays posts excerpts when
   a category is clicked.
 * I’d like to display a page that introduces the category when the category link
   is clicked. Below this paragraph of introduction will be the same posts excerpts.
 * The best solution I found was the ‘Category Page’ plugin. This plugin connects
   each category with a page, but it hasn’t been updated, so it doesn’t work anymore.
   Does somebody know how to fix this? Can somebody help me with this? (paid if 
   necessary)
 * I also read [this](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates) post but isn’t
   it possible to connect a page, so you can easily configure the page?
 * Thanks so much,
    Josh

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modification-categories/#post-1913498)
 * This is the section I suggest using
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates#Different_Text_on_Some_Category_Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates#Different_Text_on_Some_Category_Pages)
 * It sounds like the only issue you have with that method is you’d like the content
   for each category description to be dynamic, so you can change it within the 
   WordPress editor environment. You could do that by, instead of hard coding the
   description in the category.php template, by including the post or page content
   of another post or page within the category description area.
 * If you want to use pages, you will code the post ID# of each page you want included
   in the category.php template
 * Instead of this
 *     ```
       <?php if (is_category('Category A')) { ?>
       <p>This is the text to describe category A</p>
       <?php } elseif (is_category('Category B')) { ?>
       <p>This is the text to describe category B</p>
       <?php } else { ?>
       <p>This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
       I could be left blank</p>
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * something like this (this code likely needs tweaking and I made up the post ID#’
   s as examples):
 *     ```
       <?php if (is_category('Category A')) { ?>
         $page_id = 112;  // post ID of page with Cat A descriptive text
         $page_data = get_page( $page_id );
         echo $page_data->post_content;
       <?php } elseif (is_category('Category B')) { ?>
         $page_id = 137;  // post ID of page with Cat B descriptive text
         $page_data = get_page( $page_id );
         echo $page_data->post_content;
       <?php } else { ?>
          <p>This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
       It could be left blank</p>
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * That outputs raw page content. It may need to be run through WP filters. If you
   try this method and the content is not complete, post back here what is missing.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modification-categories/#post-1913498)
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