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

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# Adding category description

 *  Resolved [Nick van de Veerdonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nmvdvjr/)
 * (@nmvdvjr)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-category-description-2/)
 * Let me start of by saying that Spun is FANTASTIC, congrats on your great taste
   and skill! Got a question though,I´d like to add the cat description on archive
   pages but the regular ´<?php echo category_description( $cat ); ?>` caused a 
   white screen on the cat page. Help is much appreciated!
 * Nick
 * [http://www.jaaadesignwebsitehosting.nl/cormastwijk/](http://www.jaaadesignwebsitehosting.nl/cormastwijk/)

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 *  Theme Author [Caroline Moore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sixhours/)
 * (@sixhours)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-category-description-2/#post-3606633)
 * Thank you!
 * Hmm, I’d suggest taking a look at _s — there’s code in here that displays the
   taxonomy description correctly, and since Spun is based on _s, it should work:
   
   [https://github.com/Automattic/_s/blob/master/archive.php](https://github.com/Automattic/_s/blob/master/archive.php)
 *  Thread Starter [Nick van de Veerdonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nmvdvjr/)
 * (@nmvdvjr)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-category-description-2/#post-3606676)
 * Thank you, this is wonderfull. Stay golden!

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 * Last reply from: [Nick van de Veerdonk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nmvdvjr/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-category-description-2/#post-3606676)
 * Status: resolved