the_archive_description() – Function | Developer.WordPress.org

Displays category, tag, term, or author description.

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Parameters

$beforestringoptional: Content to prepend to the description.
Default:''
$afterstringoptional: Content to append to the description.
Default:''

Source

function the_archive_description( $before = '', $after = '' ) {
	$description = get_the_archive_description();
	if ( $description ) {
		echo $before . $description . $after;
	}
}

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Uses	Description
get_the_archive_description()`wp-includes/general-template.php`	Retrieves the description for an author, post type, or term archive.

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Version	Description
4.1.0	Introduced.

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Nilambar Sharma 8 years ago

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Display archive description.
```
the_archive_description( '<div class="taxonomy-description">', '</div>' );
```
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See Also
the_archive_title() – Display the archive title based on the queried object

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the_archive_description( string $before = '', string $after = '' )

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the_archive_description( string $before = '', string $after = '' )

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