Category, tags and CPT’s taxonomy archive pages are only showing the intro text. Following code is showing the default WordPress taxonomy description when you are not using the intro text. If you have both (Description and intro text) then intro text will display.
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/** * Filename: taxonomy_title_description.php * * @author Chinmoy Paul * @link http://genesisdeveloper.me * @copyright Copyright (c) 2015 Genesis Developer. */ //* Add this code in your functions.php file remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_taxonomy_title_description', 15 ); add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'gd_do_taxonomy_title_description', 14 ); /** * Add title and description to category / tag / taxonomy archive pages. * If the page is not a category, tag or taxonomy term archive, or there's no term, or * no term meta set, then nothing extra is displayed. * * If there have no intro text then default category description will appear * * @return null Return early if not the correct archive page, not page one, or no term meta is set. */ function gd_do_taxonomy_title_description() { global $wp_query; if ( ! is_category() && ! is_tag() && ! is_tax() ) return; $term = is_tax() ? get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ) : $wp_query->get_queried_object(); if ( ! $term || ! isset( $term->meta ) ) return; $headline = $intro_text = ''; if ( $term->meta['headline'] ) { $headline = sprintf( '<h1 %s>%s</h1>', genesis_attr( 'archive-title' ), strip_tags( $term->meta['headline'] ) ); } else { if ( genesis_a11y( 'headings' ) ) { $headline = sprintf( '<h1 %s>%s</h1>', genesis_attr( 'archive-title' ), strip_tags( $term->name ) ); } } $desc = category_description( $term->term_id ); if ( ! empty ( $desc ) ) $intro_text = apply_filters( 'genesis_term_intro_text_output', $desc ); if( $term->meta['intro_text'] ) $intro_text = apply_filters( 'genesis_term_intro_text_output', $term->meta['intro_text'] ); if ( $headline || $intro_text ) printf( '<div %s>%s</div>', genesis_attr( 'taxonomy-archive-description' ), $headline . $intro_text ); }