Comments on: How To Display Category Name And Description on Category Page in Wordpress

By: Joe Kelly

Joe Kelly — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:48:30 +0000

Hi Neil, see the elseif page in the PHP manual.

Basically you need something like:
if (is_category()) {
// do category stuff
} elseif (is_tag()) {
// do tag stuff
}

Hope that helps!

By: neil

neil — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:23:59 +0000

Thanks Joe, sorry what I meant was to have both, so if the page is a cat. page the original code will function but if it’s a tag page the substitute code will function instead. I had already tried the substitution you suggested tacked on to the end of the original code but I guess it needs some kind of OR syntax. I don’t speak php unfortunately!

By: Joe Kelly

Joe Kelly — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:39:21 +0000

Hi Neil. If haven’t tested this yet but off the top of my head, try making these substitutions in the code:

is_category() –> is_tag()
single_cat_title() –> single_tag_title()
category_description() –> tag_description()

Let me know if that works.

By: neil

neil — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:04:50 +0000

This is really useful. Is there a way to add to this so that if a tag is selected so a list of posts for a tag is displayed, the tag title can be displayed instead of a category title?