Display Category Description of Parent Category

[mgaretz]

If I have a parent category and then child categories below it, the child categories show the category title and description, but there is no title or description shown for the parent.  I thought there was a configuration item for this but I can't find it, so I must be imagining it.  I have looked at the template code and don't see anything that would display the parent info - the child code I see.

How would I add it?

[attensys]

I am having a very similar problem.  I've partly found a solution by adding the following line to the Review Listing template:

<h1>{Category:Title}</h1>

But there isn't a Placeholder for the Category Description.  I guess this can be achieved another way but not being a PHP developer, I don't know how to do this.

[attensys]

I decided to follow the instruction for adding a Placeholder to the template.reviewlisting.html file by inserting the following lines beneath the opening DIV

Code: [Select]

    <h1>{Category:Title}</h1>
    <p>{Category:Field:1}</p>
I then just needed to create a new field for each category, where I entered the text I want to appear on the Category Review Listing.

[NRyan115]

This is a bad idea because fields in a category are for reviews, you will need to fill out the field everytime you add a review in that category, but im not sure right now how to make the pparent category description show up, im on my phone and awqy from my pc.

[row1]

There is currently no category description place holder. I will look at adding one.

[attensys]

Thanks.  That will be very useful when producing content for SEO purposes.