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  kadakes · Member · Sep 20, 2012 at 10:04 am

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  I’d like to have a page in my blog where I could write a little introduction and just after it, to show all the posts I’ve written under a Category, and that it will be showing automaticaly all posts I will write under that category in the future. I think this is not possible right now with a blog hosted at wordpress.com. You just can create a menu item that shows all the posts of a certain Category, but I will like to enrich that with some extra text and some images either. If there is no way right now to do that, maybe should be considered as a future functuionality.

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  houstonweaver · Member · Sep 20, 2012 at 11:34 am

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  I agree that the functionality to add the extra “intro” text in category pages would be a cool feature on all themes. However, I have read that some themes do make use of the category description to do just that. Will poke around and see if I can find a reference, but at least we have a lead on how to do it.

  I had thought that a category specific “sticky” post would be a nice thing to incorporate to accomplish what you are describing.

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  houstonweaver · Member · Sep 20, 2012 at 11:36 am

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  This post seems to describe how to do what you want using CSS:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/sticky-posts-5?replies=2#post-750270

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  houstonweaver · Member · Sep 20, 2012 at 11:41 am

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  Ah, here is the source I was remembering about the category descriptions and the themes that use them:

  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/category-descriptions/

  The author of this site offers answers on the forum frequently and the site is PACKED with super information.

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  kadakes · Member · Sep 20, 2012 at 2:34 pm

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  Thank you very much, but this is not working for the theme I use. Otherwise what I’m looking for is a little bit more complex than that and I have finally assumed that is not actually way of doing it in wordpress.com hosted blogs. It’s only possible on self hosted ones.
  I still think that should be an available functionality to create a page where to display all posts written under a category with some intro text or/and images.