List WordPress Categories with Cat Descriptions

  • Hi, I had been trying to list the categories with their descriptions (in “ul” unordered list).

    <u>Example:</u>

    Category 1 Link >> This is a description of Category 1
    Category 2 Link >> This is a description of Category 2
    Category 3 Link >> This is a description of Category 3
    ….

    Currently, I have only been able to use the wp_list_categories function and use the cat_description as the title attribute but haven’t found a plugin for the above.

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  • <ul>
 <?php
  $categories=  get_categories();
  foreach ($categories as $cat) {
	echo '<li>'.'<a href="'.get_category_link($cat->cat_ID).'">'.$cat->description.'</a>'.'</li>';
  }
 ?>
</ul>

    Outrix’s solution didn’t work for me. Here’s what did work for me (I hate dealing with unordered lists): 

    <?php
$categories = get_categories();
foreach ($categories as $cat) {
	if ($cat->category_parent != 0) {
		echo '<span style="padding-left:10px;">';
	}
	echo '<a href="'.get_option('home').get_option('category_base').'/'.$cat->category_nicename.'/">'.$cat->cat_name.'</a> ('.$cat->category_count.')';
	if ($cat->category_description != '') {
		echo ' - '.$cat->category_description;
	}
	if ($cat->category_parent != 0) {
		echo '</span>';
	}
	echo '<br />';
}
?>

    This was quite what i was looking for, thank you guys!

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