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About Category Editor
The Category Editor plugin allows you to customize the top description area of your category and tag archive pages, making them more visually appealing and optimized for search engines. You can add media, use shortcodes, and even create a graphical menu to highlight specific categories. The Pro version offers additional features such as the ability to add a second description area and support for og:image.Screenshots
Frequently asked questions
What does the Category Editor plugin do?
The Category Editor plugin allows you to add a fully functional TinyMCE editor and use HTML or shortcodes in your category and tag descriptions. This helps customize archive pages and potentially improve search engine optimization. It transforms plain archive pages into more developed landing pages with rich content.
What features does the Category Editor provide for styling archive pages?
The plugin adds a WordPress editor to the category description area, allowing full formatting and design options for the top description area before the list of posts. You can add media, use shortcodes, and include images to enhance the category archive page. This enables the creation of customized pages packed with features.
Is Category Editor compatible with other WordPress components?
Category Editor works with any theme written to WordPress standards that includes the category description call. It is fully compatible with WooCommerce and other e-commerce plugins. The plugin functions as long as the theme calls the WordPress category, tag, or terms description.
What additional features are available with the PRO version?
The PRO version, now called Category Editor Pro, offers an additional description area at the end of the lists of posts or products. This feature is useful for adding extra content to the archive page without requiring visitors to scroll past it to see the main list. It also includes a Category Image Menu Grid feature, allowing you to assign an image to a category and display a list of categories using a shortcode.
Changelog
3.8.3
- code tidy up and check with latest version of WordPress 5.6
3.8.2
- first stage of plugin rename following request from Tiny who own the term TinyMCE
3.8.1
- Bug Fix – fixed bug that caused issues for sites without woocommerce installed.
3.8
- New feature – og:image support for WordPress categories and Woocommerce product categories.
3.7.3
- fixed bug. Opening div placed outside php buffer causing conflicts with styling and incorrectly closed div section.
3.7.2
- Fixed a couple of bugs on tag edit options. (seo options and image save option.)
3.7.1
- Removed some development code from shortcode that printed out category id’s below image grid.
3.7
- New feature – shortcode to display graphical menu using category thumbnails.
3.6.5
- Updated to deal with changes to div id’s in latest versiuon of WordPress to hide the old description box and also to deal with new get screen calls.
3.6.4
- added support for WordPress translate function
3.6.3
- added css fix provided by hafman to prevent unwanted hiding of editor boxes.
3.6.2
- security enhancement
- notification of CategoryTinymce 5.0 at http://wp.ypraise.com/2014/boost-your-categories-with-categorytinymce-4-0/
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* the css for removing the old description field was removing all fields in edit screens called description (eg user profile edit) I’ve added a page check to ensure the css is only called for category edit pages.
3.6
- Removed bottom description from plugin as these do not work with WordPress 4.0 and later. The default WordPress categroy and tag descriptions still work though.
- Remvoed filter that hide the description in category and tag listing pages – use your own screen display options on the page.
- Hide the old description boxes with css from jquery.
3.5.1
- Notification of CategoryTinymce 4.0 at http://wp.ypraise.com/
3.5
- Notification of ending of support for this plugin due to latest update of WordPress to 3.9
3.4
- Change readme file to up date FAQ for woocommerce – I’d been calling the wrong id.
3.3
- Change read me to show how to add bottom description to a woocommerce product category.
3.2
- Added settings page so people who do not want SEO can switch it off.
3.1
- Combined tag and category hooks to stop conflict on title re-writes
3.0
- Tags now have bottom description, taq image and SEO meta abilities.
2.4
- Fixed issue of losing titles on single pages
2.3
- added seo meta options for categories
2.2
- added wp stripslashes_deep function call to deal with some reports of auto escaping slashes causing problems with shortcode use
2.1
- Removed BOM from php file
- Removed some rogue code I forget to take out after testing
- Set wpautop to false to try and stop paragraphs and linebreaks being removed
- Adapted call to second description code to allow for shortcodes
2.0
- add ability to add a description to the bottom of the category listing. Evidently this is useful in ecommerce sites but I guess it can also help to add extra category specific information or advertising.
- add ability to set a category image
- to use both of the above you will need to add code to your template to display the output
1.8
- Better fix for loss of data which also allows for the saving of multiple paragraphs. I’d miss typed a fix provided by BugTracker earlier.
1.7
- Added fix to stop description from deleting when saving with multiple empty paragraphs. Multiple empty paragraphs will be deleted on saving still but all the data will not be lost. If you want to increase spacing between paragraphs use css not empty paragraphs.
1.6
- added shortcode abilities – thanks to nikosnikos for suggested and code.
- fixed issue with quote marks causing problems with rendering saved descriptions in some cases – thanks to BugTracker for fix.
1.5
- tackled the parent category option bug and cleaned up some css code – thanks to Brightweb for fixes.
1.4
- support for custom taxonomies – thanks to Jaime Martinez for adapting the taxonomy call line.
1.3
- forced a button style css width to correct the one button per row bug in html quicktags.
1.2
- dealt with the issue that prevented setting parent categories..
1.1
- extened the plugin to include tags as there’s been no issues raised with the basic category description plugin.
1.0
- The first flavour launched.
