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How about a simple plug-in that lets you add information about a category to the top of that category’s listing. So if I have a articles in a category called “discrimination”, when the category is pulled up there could be a intro phrase before the listings of the posts with something like “Here you’ll find articles on employment discrimination covering race, gender, national origin, and disability discrimination.”

Andrew

Mon, 23 May 2011 19:15:41
  • Mason
    • DEV MAN’s Sidekick

    Hiya Andrew,

    To me this is really something more for a theme to do than a plugin. The problem being that a plugin would have to work with all the various theme structures in order to work properly – this is way more difficult than a custom them template for your categories.

    See here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

    You can create category specific theme templates (like category-discrimination.php per your above example) and then add the copy to that template. It will be used by WordPress to display the posts of that category by default.

    Hope that helps!