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Category Description Editor

If you are organizing your blog by category and perhaps using the “Categories” menu for navigation, this plugin will help you make nice category descriptions that appear at the top of each category page. It enables the WordPress visual editor (TinyMCE) on the Edit Category admin page and lets you add or edit the descriptions the same way you write posts. It lets you add images, links, lists, font colours, headings, etc.

Screenshots:

Add Category Edit Category

Download:

Version 1.1 (requires WordPress 2.8)

Older versions:

Version 1.0 (requires WordPress 2.7)

Installation

If your theme doesn’t display category descriptions, have a look at the WordPress codex page about the category_description template tag.

Standard WordPress quick and easy installation:

  1. Download.
  2. Unzip.
  3. Upload the “cat-description-editor” folder to the plugins directory and activate the plugin.
  4. Log in WordPress and activate the plugin.
  5. Edit any category to see the changes.

Version 1.1 supports adding and editing descriptions to both categories and tags, new in WordPress 2.8. The enhanced editor is only available on the Edit Category or Edit Tag pages. To add description to a category or tag, create it first then edit it by clicking on it’s name.

Version 1.0 supports (and requires) WordPress 2.7. The enhanced editor is only available on the Edit Category page. To add description to a category, create it first then edit it by clicking on it’s name.

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88 Comments

  • #88 by Agnes August 19, 2010 at: 1:08 am

    Hi, this sounds great, but I m wondering
    This would not work with categories from e-commerce plugin, or would it?
    Agnes

  • #87 by Graphic Design Brisbane August 12, 2010 at: 10:11 pm

    I am loving WordPress!! Its so easy and really versatile. This is a great simple way to explain install.

  • #86 by brice July 28, 2010 at: 8:07 am

    Hi there,

    I have been using the plugin for quite a while and it always worked like a charm. great work!
    an issue came up when i upgraded worpdress to 3.0 version, though. while I didn’t change anything else, category descriptions that looked great on my website before (with image, grey text… as it looks in the editor), now look very basic with black text, no image, no line-breaks.
    is the plugin working with wordpress 3.0 ?! do i have to perform any manual change?

    thanks for your help

  • #85 by Andy Lie June 15, 2010 at: 1:19 am

    Yeah right. Previously, it failed to show image at each of category page. Then I take suggestion from Ronny too.

  • #84 by John June 10, 2010 at: 7:26 pm

    I had to get rid of my “Categories” menu for navigation all together. This may just help me re-introduce it back.

    Thank you so much!
    http://minicab-london.org.uk

  • #83 by Antoony June 9, 2010 at: 3:14 pm

    Hi,

    Could I know the main purpose of this plugin before I download it?

    No offense. Sorry, this is only because I do not understand exactly what the main purpose of this plugin so that I want to figure it out clearly before download it. Screenshots above only show the Edit Category admin page, does not show the actual display on their blogs through a browser. I mean by watching the real appearance on the blog – not on the admin page – then I will figure out the real benefits. Could you provide the URL of the blogs that have appeared Category Description Editor, please? Thank you in advance.

  • #82 by Morris April 9, 2010 at: 10:29 am

    I appreciate the effort that’s been put into this plugin, though it’s now too buggy with the newest WP for my uses.

    I instead recommend using the Allow HTML in Category Descriptions plugin recommended below AND the plugin below, which does what the Category Description Editor used to do.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-category-editor/

  • #81 by Helen March 31, 2010 at: 11:02 am

    Never mind. Took Ronny’s advice and installed the html plugin and it now works yay! Thanks Ronny!

  • #80 by Helen March 31, 2010 at: 10:18 am

    I was recently forced to upgrade to v2.9.2 for my company’s WP site. I think this version of WP doesn’t play well with v1.1 category description editor plugin. The pictures I insert into the categories still shows up on the admin side but when I go to the actual categories of my site, instead of a picture I just get a blank space. Help!

  • #79 by marc March 10, 2010 at: 4:58 am

    Hi there.
    Excuse my English, this is an automatic translation.
    My WordPress version is 2.9.2.
    The plugin version is the last.
    one theme is HeatMap Adsense Theme 2.5.2
    My Blog http://blog.seo.secret.leads2track.com/

    I use the plugin to generate extracts that I use in my meta description
    site.

    I love the plugin. Here is my question.
    Since I use the plugin to display my home page has changed, it displays extaits and will no longer extentions like (read more, Sociable, vote the post) to each extract.
    I desire to return to my situation PRIOR
    - Display the contents of the article until the tag more.
    - Display read more
    - Display Sociable
    - Display the post vote

    I tried pluging of the parameter in this direction but my parameters are not taken into account.

    I even uninstall the pluging but still the hack ..persist

    What files. Php must be changed to return to the previous situation.

    Thank you in advance

    Marc

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