Wordpress category description. Please, help.

[everestcash]

I wanna display descriptions next to each category name on index page, but I'm not familiar with PHP at all

I edited the code like this:

<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name'); ?> - <?php echo category_description($cat); ?>
but it doesn't work properly

Could you please advice?

p.s. I thought I need something like show_description parameter that exists for <?php get_links(); ?>
but seems like it doesn't exists for <?php wp_list_cats('); ?>

[everestcash]

or maybe you can just give me a link to any theme that uses category descriptions
so I could look for it in the code

[everestcash]

bump for me

[peterp]

please try it with these : <?php category_description(category); ?>

[everestcash]

thanks, but i've already tried that ((

[Bods4Mods]

bump for getting it solved

[woman]

Try this:

<?php
$exclude = '';

// $orderby - Category table column (record) to sort on; for column
// options see note #2 above.
$orderby = 'cat_name';

// $order - The sort order method. Use 'ASC'ending or 'DESC'ending.
$order = 'ASC';

/* << user-configurable variables << */

if($exclude) { // set up the category exclude list for the query
    $and = '';
    $wherecat = 'AND (';
    $exclude_cat = preg_split('/[\s,]+/', $exclude);
    foreach ($exclude_cat as $xcat) {
        $wherecat .= $and . ' cat_ID <> ' . $xcat . ' ';
        $and = 'AND';
    }
    $wherecat .= ')';
}

global $wpdb; // making sure the WP database object is around
/* the next line assigns the query results to $categories */
$categories = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->categories WHERE category_count > 0 $wherecat ORDER BY $orderby $sort"); // $wp_object_cache->cache['category'];
?>
<?php /* >> category list loop >> the important part! */ ?>
<?php while(list(,$category) = each($categories)) : // start loop ?>
        <p>
        <h3 id="cat-<?php echo $category->cat_ID; ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($category->cat_ID); // returns category url ?>" title="<?php echo $category->cat_name; ?>"><?php echo $category->cat_name; ?></a></h3>
        <?php echo $category->category_description; ?> (<?php echo $category->category_count; ?> posts)
        </p>
<?php endwhile; // end loop ?>
<?php /* << category list loop << */ ?>

Greetings, woman

[everestcash]

Thanks A Lot!

[woman]

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