This weekend I noticed the name of the category wasn’t appearing at the top of the category pages on this site and another site I run, which are both WordPress sites running the Genesis Framework. You’d think this would be default functionality (spoiler: it is, but I never RTFM.)
Heading to Google I found two code based solutions
http://sridharkatakam.com/show-category-titles-loop-category-pages-genesis/
https://yoast.com/wordpress-archive-pages/
I adopted the first one and came up with:
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//* Add Category page titles add_action ( 'genesis_before_loop', 'fc_show_category_name' ); function fc_show_category_name() { $category = get_the_category(); if (is_category()) { echo '<h1>Category: ' . $category[0]->cat_name . '</h1>'; } } |
But I will still kind of stymied that this wasn’t out of the box functionality. How could StudioPress leave this basic blogging functionality out of it’s framework. Well, they didn’t. It took a quick look at their default theme to see how to handle it.
On the Edit Category page they’ve added a couple of new fields:
You can even add a description about the category. A bit much for this site, but I can really see its use for other sites I’m working on.
Sometimes it pays to read the manual.
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