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category_description( int $category ): string

Retrieves category description.

Parameters

$categoryintoptional
Category ID. Defaults to the current category ID.

Return

string Category description, if available.

More Information

If used in the archive.php template, place this function within the is_category() conditional statement.

Otherwise, this function will stop the processing of the page for monthly and other archive pages.

Source

function category_description( $category = 0 ) {
	return term_description( $category );
}

Changelog

Version Description
1.0.0 Introduced.

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https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/category_description