[Resolved] Custom Intro for Each Category Archive for First Page Only

[David]

Hi there,

the simplest method would be to hide the element with some CSS eg.

body[class^="category-paged-"] .hero-description {
  display: none;
}

Then wrap your description content within a HTML Element that has the class to hidden:

<p class="hero-description">The description</p>

[David]

Please stop downloading code and then hiding it with css.

[David]

Unless there is a fundamental SEO issue i don’t see what the problem is here, as we’re only dealing with text that only requires a simple database query.

But there are alternatives, one of which is to create a shortcode to output the description and only output it on non paged archives eg.

add_shortcode( 'term_description', 'tu_term_description' );
function tu_term_description() {
  if (!is_paged()) {
    ob_start();
    echo term_description( get_queried_object()->term_id, 'category' );
    return ob_get_clean();
  }
} 

Which will provide you with this shortcode [term_description]

[David]

OK so here is a simple Element Header:

<h1>{{post_title}}</h1>
<p>{{custom_field.description}}</p>
<p>
Subscribe Now
</p>

I can change this to

<h1>{{post_title}}</h1>
<p>[show_excerpt]</p>
<p>
Subscribe Now
</p>

and write a shortcode that returns the excerpt on the first page and otherwise return empty

Something like this:

add_shortcode( ‘show_excerpt’, function() {
ob_start();
if( is_archive() && !is_paged() ) {
echo get_the_excerpt();
}
return ob_get_clean();
} );

But this shortcode needs work!

[David]

OK yes, that worked. Very easy! Thank You!!!

[David]

See above:

https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/custom-intro-for-each-category-archive-for-first-page-only/page/2/#post-1618663

[David]

Yeah I got it thanks.

[David]

You’re welcome

[Author]

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