Title: Displaying a category's description
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Displaying a category's description

 *  [Caylah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylah/)
 * (@caylah)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-category-description/)
 * I’ve been attempting to add my categories descriptions by adding:
 *     ```
       <?php
                echo category_description();
       ?>
       ```
   
 * To my archive.php file.
 * But it doesn’t work at all, which I don’t really understand.
    Is there a special
   place within the php.file you’re ought to place it or does the code simply not
   work for this purpose?
 * I’m using the theme Minimatic and my modifications is made within a childtheme.
   
   Here’s the link to my [site](http://anitasimonsen.com).

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-category-description/#post-3154779)
 * if your theme has a _**category.php**_, then you need to add the changes there.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)

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## Tags

 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [childtheme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/childtheme/)
 * [description](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/description/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-category-description/#post-3154779)
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