Title: Adding category description
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding category description

 *  Resolved [jdinh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdinh/)
 * (@jdinh)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-category-description-1/)
 * How can I add category description to the category page?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-category-description-1/#post-3581155)
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 *  Thread Starter [jdinh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdinh/)
 * (@jdinh)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-category-description-1/#post-3581194)
 * Thanks. I was able to figure this out.
    Adding `<?php echo category_description();?
   >` to above <h1> tag in archive.php
 * Then enter content in the Description field under Posts / Categories

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