Tag: category description

By default, the PHP scripts that call the post excerpt and category description automatically insert paragraph tags. You can disable the automatic insertion of paragraph tags should in case you decided to use them for something that makes paragraph tags unnecessary; for example, using post excerpt as meta description.

Almost all WordPress theme do not readily support the display of category description and unlike post excerpt, there is no obvious reason why you should display it. One possible use is to provide an introductory text on top of the category page of each category.

The WordPress category description is an optional text that you can fill-up to provide a short description of what each category is all about.

While the major search engines no longer consider meta description as a deciding factor in giving a page a rank in the search engine result page, it still appears in the search results as a description of your website. Hence, you can use it to entice people to visit your website. It will be much better for a WordPress-powered website if each page and post has its own meta description, some PHP tweak can do just that.