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May 7, 2013 at 2:34 pm

Hello there,

This is possible using our shortcodes on a page for the category you want to display. Then you can put the description within the page content.

See here for a list of shortcodes: https://eventespresso.com/wiki/shortcodes-template-variables/#category

May 7, 2013 at 4:14 pm

There is a setting that you can set to yes in Event Espresso>Categories for each of your categories where you want the description to display. When you go in to edit the category it will say:

Display category description on event listings page?

And if you set it to yes, it will display the description all the time. If you do not want to description to display if there are events listed, then you can modify where it displays the description in event_list.php to check to if there are any events before displaying the description. This is around line 265 of event_list.php, here is some example code:

if ($display_desc == 'Y') {
 	if ( count($events) < 1) {
	echo '<p id="events_category_name-' . $category_id . '" class="events_category_name">' . stripslashes_deep($category_name) . '</p>';
	echo espresso_format_content($category_desc);
	}
}