{"id":839,"date":"2025-03-24T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/gd-category-description\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:24:10","slug":"gd-category-description","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-widgets\/gd-category-description\/","title":{"rendered":"GD > Category Description"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t All Widgets come as Widgets, Shortcodes or Blocks. Learn more about our Super Duper Widgets<\/a>.<\/section>\n

\n\t The Category Description widget is used to display the
\n\tCategory Top Description <\/i>text <\/i>(not the default description input)<\/em> from the backend edit category screen.
\n\tE.g: Places > Place Categories > Attractions (edit) > Category Top Description.
\n\t<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\n

Location Manager Extension<\/h3>\n

\tWhen installed you are given more options when editing the category top description, you can:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Use place holder tags to create a general description for all locations.<\/strong>
    \n\tFor example the text “All Attractions %%in_location%%.<\/em><\/strong>” would change depending on the location you are currently viewing in the URL, so it could be “All Attraction in Paris.<\/strong><\/em>“<\/li>\n
  • You can individually set a unique description for every single location<\/strong> in your directory, e.g.: Countries, Regions, and cities for every category<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n

    Widget Options<\/h2>\n
    \n\t There are no options for this widget except for the Widget title.<\/section>\n
      \n
    • Title<\/strong> – Set the title for the widget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Example Output<\/h2>\n

      \n\t\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      All Widgets come as Widgets, Shortcodes or Blocks. Learn more about our Super Duper Widgets. The Category Description widget is used to display the Category Top Description text (not the default description input) from the backend edit category screen. E.g: Places > Place Categories > Attractions (edit) > Category Top Description. Location Manager Extension When installed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[213,422],"class_list":["post-839","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-core-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}