Category description at the top of the calendar.

[Alan]

Hi, I’d like to display the category description at the top of the calendar page when I’m displaying category specific calendars. I’m using the default event template (copied in my template folder) so I was wondering if anyone knows how to make this happen? Basically I need code that says that if we are viewing a specific category to show that category’s description.

Thanks in advance.

[Rob]

Hey Alan. Thanks for the note here; not sure the level of effort this would take, but let me see if our dev Jonah can point you in the right direction when he hits the forums later this afternoon. Stay tuned.

[Jonah]

Hi Alan,

All you have to do is put:

echo term_description();


in your gridview.php file – first make a copy from /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/gridview.php and place in an ‘events’ folder in your theme.

I hope that helps!

[Jonah]

… do wrap it in proper PHP tags as necessary too 🙂

[Alan]

Sorry it took so long for me to get back. This did work perfectly. Thanks for the quick and helpful response.

[Rob]

Excellent to hear, Alan! Thanks for confirming as much. Sounds like we’re all set here but please let me know if you have any other issues down the road.

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