stephenbaugh

This plugin gives you the ability to add a category introduction to each post. I have multiple topics I blog about and therefore want to put the post in prespective by sharing the category I added it to. No editing of themes is required to use the plugin and a default layout is setup on install. Play with the html layout until you get exactly what you want. 3 tags are provided to give you access to the category data [categoryID], [categoryTitle] and [categoryDescription] also optionally you can use php if you are an advanced user.
Tags are evaluated first, then php before the results are returned.
For more detailed information and installation information please visit this plugins <a href="http://www.stephenbaugh.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/category-intro-post/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>
The html layout has 3 tags available
<ol>
<li>[categoryID] </li>
<li>[categoryTitle]</li>
<li>[categoryDescription]</li>
</ol>
<h3>Support</h3>
To ask questions, find answers to issues & make requests visit my <a href="http://www.stephenbaugh.com/blog/forums/" rel="nofollow ugc">forums</a>

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</code></pre>

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