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.

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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:

Download.
Unzip.
Upload the “cat-description-editor” folder to the plugins directory and activate the plugin.
Log in WordPress and activate the plugin.
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.

79 Comments

#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
#78 by Mobile P March 10, 2010 at: 4:43 am

This is getting somewhat messy – up to 2.9.1 John’s solution (call with: $category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->category_description; NOT echo category_description) works for me – editor is there for category editing & formatted descriptions appear correctly
For 2.9.2, this doesn’t work anymore. Instead if you use Ronny’s solution, the formatted description appears but category editing becomes html-only, even if you change the code in line 40 (not 42, at least on my editor).

Confused but still needing to use this since category handling is so horrible in wp…

Hope there will be a compatible version soon.
#77 by Ronny March 6, 2010 at: 11:05 am

cause html tags not allowed you have to install the “Allow HTML in Category Descriptions” plugin and activate it. than change line 42 of cat-description-editor.php from ” $init['theme_advanced_buttons1'] .= ‘,image’; ” to ” $init['theme_advanced_buttons1'] .= ‘,image,formatselect’;” after that u can use the formatselect to create headlines or whatever. tested with wp 2.9.2 and works.

regards,
ronny
#76 by simon lyton February 27, 2010 at: 8:03 am

downloaded the new version and it doesnt work?. I get:
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argumented is expected to be a valid callback, ‘wp_tiny_mce’ was given in /mnt/local/home/kevinflatt/naturalremediescures.com/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 311
#75 by Mobile Pete February 23, 2010 at: 5:48 am

So any news here?

This problem is twofold:
For one, the changes made in the past don’t show up anymore, and secondly, the editor doesn’t show in the backend.
It would be so cool if this would work again…
#74 by Max February 10, 2010 at: 6:44 am

Nah dont think i did anything wrong, the fix just doesnt work.
#73 by AnimeHills February 7, 2010 at: 5:58 pm

I probably did something wrong because every category has the same description for me now.
#72 by Omer February 4, 2010 at: 7:34 pm

JOHN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS FIX!

It works now.
#71 by John January 26, 2010 at: 10:10 pm

I’ve been wishing this worked on 2.9.1 as well. And just now I’ve got it to finally work.
You need to call it like this

$category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->category_description;

NOT

echo category_description

Im pumped mine’s working again.
#70 by Delpher January 21, 2010 at: 9:13 am

Why Category Description Editor don’t notify new version of plugin?

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