Show Category Description in Template Private Files

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, we’ve been really busy these days to get our site back, and I forgot to answer your thread.

First, If you want to display a category description, you might want to create a new specific template:
Copy customer-private-files-content.template.php to wp-content/customer-area/templates/customer-private-files-content-category_archive.template.php (note that the filename changed). This will create a listing template specific to category archives.

Then, You’ll basically just need to use the term_description() function to display the description for that page. Nothing related to our plugin there, just using a WP function.

I hope that helps,
Best regards.

Hi,

I have copied the file customer-private-files-content.template.php into my theme folder in wp-content/themes/child-theme/customer-area/templates/customer-private-files-content.template.php. It shows me all the changes I have applied to the content structure but where I show the description it doesn’t show anything.

This is the code I have put in:

<div class=”cuar-collection-description”>
<?php echo term_description(); ?>
</div>

Do I have to pass the term ID parameter to the term_description function? How do I get the value of the term ID?

Best regards

Hi,

You don’t need to pass the ID if you are on a taxonomy/tag/category page. Maybe make sure you browse files by category.

If not enough, you can use get_terms().

Regards.

Also,

I have copied the file customer-private-files-content.template.php into my theme folder in wp-content/themes/child-theme/customer-area/templates/customer-private-files-content.template.php

Please note that this is not exactly what I said ?? The file name should be customer-private-files-content-category_archive.template.php in order to only affect category pages, where the term description is needed.

Regards.

Hi,

I’ve tried everything you say and I can’t get the description to come up.

I have copied the php/core-addons/customer-private-files/templates/customer-private-files-content.template.php file into wp-content/customer-area/templates/customer-private-files-content-category_archive.template.php and added the following lines:

<div class="cuar-collection-description">
    <?php echo term_description(); ?>
</div>

I have also tried with get_terms()

<div class="cuar-collection-description">
    <?php
        $term = get_terms();
        echo $term->description;
    ?>
</div>

But neither of the two options prints the category description.

I hope you can help me to display the category description on the private archive category page.

Best regards

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