Plugin / Enhanced Category Pages

Installation

1. Download plugin archive.
2. Upload and uncompress it in “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
4. Use “Enhanced Edit” link to edit the page of the respective category
5. Category/term description display is automatically enhanced with your content.
6. Optional: create content-ecp.php in your theme folder to customize the display.

Advanced usage options

1. Create content-ecp.php in your theme folder to customize the display of the enhanced content. The custom post associated with category/term is set up, so all display functions for posts are usable.

   <?php
       global $enhanced_category;
       // if not previously set up, then let setup_ec_data get the current query term/category
       if (empty($categoryId)) {
           $categoryId = null;
       }
   
       // get enhanced category post and set it up as global current post
       $enhanced_category->setup_ec_data($categoryId);
   ?>
   
   <!-- enchanced category page (ECP) content -->
   <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
   
       <div class="post-thumbnail">
           <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
       </div>
   
       <div class="entry-content">
           <?php the_content(); ?>
       </div><!-- .entry-content -->
   
       <?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit'), '<footer class="entry-footer"><span class="edit-link">', '</span></footer><!-- .entry-footer -->' ); ?>
   
   </article><!-- #post-## -->
   

2. Display category/term page. Edit category/taxonomy template to show the content of the “Enhanced Category” (feel free to adjust to your needs):

   //in category.php or taxonomy.php or any other place your theme displays the category/term content
   <?php
       global $enhanced_category;
       //get enhanced category post and set it up as global current post
       $enhanced_category->setup_ec_data();
   ?>
   <!-- enhanced category content -->
   <?php the_post_thumbnail("medium"); ?>
   
   <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>
   
   <!-- custom fields -->
   <?php
       get_post_custom();
   ?>
   
   <?php
       // If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template
       if ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) :
           comments_template();
       endif;
   ?>
   

3. Display a list of categories:

   //$categories is presumed to be an already fetched array of categories/terms
   foreach($categories as $category) {
       $GLOBALS['enhanced_category']->setup_ec_data($category->term_id);
       the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail');
   }