The description area taken from the original example.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn that same example, you might notice that beside the tabbed section is a section of text. I was able to get these two different elements to sit side by side by using shortcodes for columns and dividing the area up into a two-thirds section (for the tabs) and a one-third section (for the text).<\/p>\n
Below that section, of course, I inserted a photo gallery. You can also insert images and videos and links and go crazy with all the text you like.<\/p>\n
With a little bit of imagination, you could really make your category pages true landing pages for the content in that section. And on top of that, it could greatly improve the SEO for those pages.<\/p>\n
Very Important Notes<\/h2>\n1. Shortcodes<\/h3>\n
For some reason, some shortcodes (including photo galleries) don\u2019t seem to work in the editor. But there\u2019s a solution for that.<\/p>\n
Place the following line of code in your functions.php file. (Appearance > Editor > Theme Functions \u2013 functions.php)<\/p>\n
add_filter( 'category_description', 'do_shortcode' );<\/code><\/p>\nAnother possible issue is that some shortcode buttons won\u2019t show up on the editor when they\u2019re supposed to. If this happens, you can just open up a new post and do your setting up there, then copy and paste the code into the editor for the category descriptions.<\/p>\n
2. Multiple Category Pages<\/h3>\n
One thing about category pages is that once you get a number of posts on them, they will cut the posts off and create a second page, then a third, and a fourth, etc. The problem here is that your \u201ccategory description\u201d will also repeat on each of those pages. You may not want that (especially for SEO purposes), and so there\u2019s something you can do to prevent it.<\/p>\n
Open up your category template, and place the code that calls your category description into the middle of the code below. (Appearance > Editor > Category Template \u2013 category.php)<\/p>\n
<?php if (!is_paged()) {?>\r\nInsert category description code\r\n<?php }?>\r\n<\/pre>\nRemember we said the code to call your category description in looks like this:<\/p>\n
<?php echo category_description( $category_id ); ?><\/code><\/p>\nBut the truth is it may be slightly different in your theme, but it should look somewhat like that.<\/p>\n
In the default Twenty Twelve theme, for example, it was slightly different. It looked like this:<\/p>\n
\r\n<?php if ( category_description() ) : \/\/ Show an optional category description ?>\r\n<div class="archive-meta"><?php echo category_description(); ?><\/div>\r\n<?php endif; ?>\r\n<\/pre>\nAnd so I took that whole section and put it into the code mentioned before. Here\u2019s what the whole thing looked like:<\/p>\n
\r\n<?php if (!is_paged()) {?>\r\n<?php if ( category_description() ) : \/\/ Show an optional category description ?>\r\n<div class="archive-meta"><?php echo category_description(); ?><\/div>\r\n<?php endif; ?>\r\n<?php }?>\r\n<\/pre>\nAnd finally, the last important note \u2013 this works for tags too! So if you have important tag pages that you\u2019d like to highlight, go crazy.<\/p>\n
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