[Resolved] Sidebar Control and 'A Category'

[Maike]

Hi Leo,
Sorry for being unclear. 🙂
No, I want to keep the title, but hide the meta (categories). Is that possible?
Thank you,
Maike

[Maike]

Hi Leo. I figured this one out. Thank you!

[Leo]

Glad it’s sorted 🙂

[Maike]

Hi guys

I’m still struggling to show the description on the category page.

I followed this… learned more about elements, add this shortcode to my php file:
(using dispatch skin, created a child theme)

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

and added this as a new element hook.

<?php if ( is_category() ) : ?>
    [term_description]
<?php endif; ?>

checked off the execute PHP checkbox
left priority set to 10
hook: before_maine_content

display rules: all archives.
The only thing that shows up is “[term_description]”
but not the actual description I created for that category.

Can you please help?

Thank you,
Maike

[Tom]

Hey Maike,

Try this instead:

<?php if ( is_category() ) :
    echo do_shortcode( '[term_description]' );
endif; ?>

Let me know 🙂

[Maike]

Hi Tom!!

that code

<?php if ( is_category() ) :
echo do_shortcode( ‘[term_description]’ );
endif; ?>

I T W O R K E D!!!

Nothing short of magical. Thank you, thank you!

I wish I was proficient enough to address the next few problems myself, but I’m afraid I do have to ask some follow up questions.

01
The text for the category description displays just fine. But it’s also displaying the latest post separately from the rest (inline with the end of the category description text).
Ideally, I’d like to have the category header show, the description show, then some small white space between the end of that text and the beginning of the 3×3 grid
Follow up.
The header and text styling would be done with CSS, right? I just don’t know how to ‘call’ those parts (h2, p, …) to customize it.
The second part is that I don’t want any one post to stand out.

Here is how the categories display in a category in which I haven’t added any category description text
i.e. gluten free recipes

Here is how the category page display in a category in which I have added some category description text
i.e. Dinners

In essence, I’d like to display them in the 3×3 grid, not show the latest post separate and have to ability to style the text.

Thank you,
Maike

[Tom]

Can you try setting the priority of your hook to 5?

Let me know 🙂

[Maike]

Hi Tom!

That worked! It’s great! Thank you so much!

I love this coding magic.

Thank you,
Maike

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

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