Huddled Masses
You can do more than breathe for free…
December 26th, 2003 | 
Author: Well, if you’re like me, you’ve been dissatisfied with the “View all posts in the [insert name here] category” tool-tip that pops up when people mouse over the categories in your list… and I have a simple fix for you.
It’s really very simple, just open up your template functions file, and find the list_cats function. Right at the top of that there’s a section that reads:
$query = "
SELECT cat_ID, cat_name,
COUNT($tablepost2cat.post_id) AS cat_count,
SELECT cat_ID, cat_name,
COUNT($tablepost2cat.post_id) AS cat_count,
What you want to do is add the category_description to that:
$query = "
SELECT cat_ID, cat_name, category_description,
COUNT($tablepost2cat.post_id) AS cat_count,
SELECT cat_ID, cat_name, category_description,
COUNT($tablepost2cat.post_id) AS cat_count,
Then, further down the function change the cration of the link so that it reads like so:
$link = '<a href="'.get_category_link(0, $category->cat_ID).'" title="' .
( ($category->category_description > '') ?
$category->category_description :
'View all post in the ' . $category->cat_name . ' category' ) . '">';
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