Thesis Tip #12 – Adding Custom Headers to Category Pages

You can add introductory text to the top of your category page by using the thesis_hook_archive_info hook.

For the following example, we’re assuming you have two categories for which you’d like intros, with the category slugs of category-1 and category-2. You can use category names, id’s or slugs for this. See The Codex and scroll down to is_category for more information on usage.

In custom_functions.php:

function category_intro() {
if(is_category('category-1')) { ?>
<p>This is the intro text for Category 1</p>
<?php }else if(is_category('category-2')) { ?>
<p>This is the intro text for Category 2</p>
<?php }
}
add_action('thesis_hook_archive_info','category_intro');


This will add the block of text above all the posts, but below the archive_info div (the part that says “From the Category Archives”) . You also might want to hide the archive_info div by putting this in your custom.css file:

.custom #archive_info {display:none;}

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All Thesis Tips:

• Adding “nofollow” to Category Links
• Thesis Tip #18 – Full Width Navigation
• Thesis Tip #17 – Adding Content Between Posts
• Thesis Tip #16 – Redirect Pages
• Thesis Tip #15 – Custom Author Pages
• Thesis Tip #14 – Add Related Posts Before Comments Link
• Thesis Tip #13 – Using Gravatars in WordPress
• Thesis Tip #12 – Adding Custom Headers to Category Pages
• Thesis Tip #11 – Clickable Logo in Header
• Thesis Tip #10 – Filter Categories from Homepage
• Thesis Tip #9 – Custom Options Page
• Thesis Tip #8 – Change Next and Previous Post Text
• Thesis Tip #7 – Import and Export Your Design
• Thesis Tip #6 – Print Stylesheets
• Thesis Tip #5 – Featured Content Rotator
• Thesis Tip #4 – Adding Classes to Body
• Thesis Tip #3 – Multiple content areas
• Thesis Tip #2 – Additional Sidebars
• Thesis Tip #1 – Custom Images and Category Pages

Bill Erickson is a WordPress Consultant who builds custom websites using WordPress as a CMS and Thesis or Genesis as a framework. He’s a cofounder and resident of The Creative Space, and a cofounder of the BIL Conference (the open analog to the TED Conference).