Display category description

[Johannes Buchner]

Hi Stephen,
I’d like to display the category description in the single-event template.
I’ve gotten pretty far using category_description() however I don’t know how to get the category id.

$category_id = what do I put here???;<br>
echo category_description( $category_id );

Can you please help me out with the right code?
Thanks!

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Johannes,

Events can have multiple categories, so in the following I’m assuming you’re only interested in the ‘first’ one:

$terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'event-category' );
$term = array_shift( $terms );
$term_id = (int) $term->id;
echo term_description( $term_id, 'event-category' );

You have to use term_description as category_description is for post categories.

[Johannes Buchner]

Thank you for your fast respond, Stephen!

You’re right, I only want to display the first category description.
Unfortunately the code isn’t working on my site yet. It is not showing any description.

When I replace $term_id with a specific id number the result is exactly what I want.
So there seems to be a problem with the paremeter “$term_id”.

Any ideas?

[Stephen Harris]

Sorry, try

$term_id = (int) $term->term_id;

[Johannes Buchner]

Thanks Stephen,

that did the trick

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