As your theme is only available via wordpress.com, you will need to wait for one of their support people to deal with your questions. To that end, I’ve have tagged this topic for their attention and, hopefully, someone will be along shortly.
Hi there – can you let me know specifically where you want the category description to show?
Somewhere like I’ve indicated here? https://cloudup.com/cWQKv-7DFeL
Do you already have a child theme set up?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
http://op111.net/53/
http://vimeo.com/49770088
p.s. the theme is available here for download by anyone:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/balloons/
Hi Kathryn,
First, thank you to come and help. Then, some news : I finally managed to display the description on top of my category pages. I created a “category.php” file from the “archive.php” one (because yes, I do have a child theme set up), and added this code before the loop :
<p><?php echo category_description(); ?></p>
(Wonder if there’s really any need to put it between <p> blocks ?)
And this appears exactly where I want it to be : above the first article on the page.
However, I don’t know how to apply a special style to it. For the moment, the description is just bare text with no background. I would like to put it in a “box” like my articles or my widgets (see image here : https://www.dropbox.com/s/ubd32o0no355wkk/Blog%20screenshot.jpg ).
What should I write in the stylesheet ?
Great! You can add a class for the category description on the paragraph tag, like this:
<p class="catdesc"><?php echo category_description(); ?></p>
You can then style it in your child theme’s stylesheet:
.catdesc {
}
Add some styles that match your other boxes between the curly brackets.
Thank you soooo much ! I didn’t know what class name I should write.
Thank you again !
I didn’t know what class name I should write.
You could actually use anything as long as it’s not already in use by the theme or core WordPress. 🙂
Bon theming!
