Category description

Anonymous

#265015

Hi

I am trying to get the category description from the active category.

I found this topic: https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/category-description/, but I does not seem to work for me or I don’t completely understand what the solution is.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!

Trevor

#265041

What code are you using? And where are you putting this code?

Anonymous

#265049

Right now I am not using any code since I don’t really understand the other topic.

The thing I want to achieve is to get the descriptions from all categories. I am trying to add a short description for every filter on my page through a tooltip, so I need to get all the category descriptions with for example a data attribute with the category name.

Anonymous

#265096

My last message wasn’t very clear so here is a better explaination. It would be useful for us to ‘change’ the filter section, For example if we can add the category description directly within the filter form.

<li class="sf-level-1 sf-item-28" data-sf-count="0" data-sf-depth="1">
    <input class="sf-input-checkbox" type="checkbox" value="meubilair" name="_sft_product_cat[]" id="sf-input-e1580d486231b2d2cc5c9c1e1477f2d9">
    <label class="sf-label-checkbox" for="sf-input-e1580d486231b2d2cc5c9c1e1477f2d9">Meubilair</label>
    <div>CATEGORY DESCRIPTION HERE</div>
</li>

So as shown above I want to get the description in an extra div for every category or taxonomy.

Is this possible?

Trevor

#265164

If it were possible, I do not know how you would do this, and I suspect it would break our filter, as the filter relies on the form HTML structure to work, and adding a div like that could break it.

Fetching the description would need PHP, but adding it in to the form would need JavaScript, and I cannot see that working, sorry.

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