Move Category Titles from above Post Title to Bottom of Post

I guess you are using 2014 theme of wordpress. According to this, you have to make changes in content.php file.
locate the below code in content.php file :

[ Moderator note: code fixed. Please wrap code in the backtick character or use the code button. ]

<div class="entry-meta">
			<span class="cat-links"><?php echo get_the_category_list( _x( ', ', 'Used between list items, there is a space after the comma.', 'twentyfourteen' ) ); ?></span>
		</div>

Place the above code, where you entry-content div is closed.

Hi Byjeteast,

It’s great you’re using a child theme for this task. I recommend this technique. Copy over content.php from the parent into the child theme. Next, find this snippet of code:

<?php if ( in_array( 'category', get_object_taxonomies( get_post_type() ) ) && twentyfourteen_categorized_blog() ) : ?>
  <div class="entry-meta">
    <span class="cat-links"><?php echo get_the_category_list( _x( ', ', 'Used between list items, there is a space after the comma.', 'twentyfourteen' ) ); ?></span>
  </div>
<?php
 endif;

Move this code below the post content code. To find the right location, scroll down the file and find the closing tag comment (<!-- .entry-content -->). Just underneath you find this php tag:

<?php endif; ?>

Paste your code below this endif php snippet.

There might be a few adjustments to make it look good or getting opening and closing php tags right when you move code, but this is a way you can achieve the results you’re looking for.

I hope this works ??
– Maria Antonietta

Hi Maria-

Thanks for responding! I think we’re moving in the right direction, but not quite there yet. When I move the code below the end of the content, I’m getting this error when I click on a post:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/jesalv9/byjeteast.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen-child/content.php on line 66

If I add ” ?>” to the end of the code that I moved (I saw this syntax other places in the code) I get this https://postimg.org/image/6a698vgr3/ which, while it looks terrible, is a step in the right direction (I think) because the categories are at the bottom now.

Here is my whole content code (with the second option I just described).

<?php
/**
* The default template for displaying content
*
* Used for both single and index/archive/search.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Fourteen
* @since Twenty Fourteen 1.0
*/
?>

<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<?php twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail(); ?>

<header class="entry-header">

if ( is_single() ) :
the_title( '<h1 class="entry-title">', '</h1>' );
else :
the_title( '<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="' . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h1>' );
endif;
?>

<div class="entry-meta">
<?php
if ( 'post' == get_post_type() )
twentyfourteen_posted_on();

if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) :
?>
<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'twentyfourteen' ), __( '1 Comment', 'twentyfourteen' ), __( '% Comments', 'twentyfourteen' ) ); ?></span>
<?php
endif;

edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyfourteen' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' );
?>
</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
</header><!-- .entry-header -->

<?php if ( is_search() ) : ?>
<div class="entry-summary">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
<?php else : ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php
the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyfourteen' ) );
wp_link_pages( array(
'before' => '<div class="page-links"><span class="page-links-title">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyfourteen' ) . '</span>',
'after' => '</div>',
'link_before' => '<span>',
'link_after' => '</span>',
) );
?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( in_array( 'category', get_object_taxonomies( get_post_type() ) ) && twentyfourteen_categorized_blog() ) : ?>
<div class="entry-meta">
<span class="cat-links"><?php echo get_the_category_list( _x( ', ', 'Used between list items, there is a space after the comma.', 'twentyfourteen' ) ); ?></span>
</div>
<?php
endif; ?>

<?php the_tags( '<footer class="entry-meta"><span class="tag-links">', '', '</span></footer>' ); ?>
</article><!-- #post-## -->

Thank you!

After <header class="entry-header"> add a php opening tag:

<?php

This should fix the code. I hope this solves the issue. If it doesn’t, don’t hesitate to reach out for more help ??

Awesome- that worked! Thank you! Do you have any advice on the second part of the question about moving the title and the content up to fill in the white space left by the category tags?

Great! To move the post title up, you could add something like this:

.entry-title {
    margin: -30px 0 12px;
}

The top margin is -30px. You’re free to tweak the value as you like. If this affects other parts of the site that you don’t want to, let me know so I can adjust the CSS accordingly.

Best ??

Hey Maria-

Dropped that bit of codde in to the style.css and it doesn’t appear to be doing anything. Was I supposed to add it to the content.php?

Thanks!

Oh wait! It’s working now!!! Wahoo! Except I noticed a problem back with the first question of moving categories to the bottom. It appears to only be working on certain pages.

For example, this one doesn’t work

And this one does

Any thoughts?

Links got messed up;

https://www.byjeteast.com/?p=100 works

https://www.byjeteast.com/?p=34 doesn’t work

Hi there!

Great things have been moving along with your website.

The reason why the categories are still on top of the content on that particular page is because of the post format. The post in question is an image post format. If you want to achieve the same result with all post formats, then you need to open content-image.php (which is the one related to the specific link you posted above),content-link.php, content-gallery.php, content-quote.php, and content-video.php, and do the same thing you did with content.php.

Therefore, simply copy over each of those files to your child theme (if you use all of the post formats, otherwise do this only with the post formats you use in your website), locate the categories markup and move it below the content.

I hope this helps. Any more queries, keep posting ??

The good news is that fixed the category issue. The bad news is that, on sites that were specific types of content, the title then was overlaying on top of the featured image. Oh well, I just made them all standard since I’m not really convinced there is a benefit to choosing a particular type of post. I’m going to mark this as resolved ??

I’ve got a bunch of other forums open if you’ve got any insight- I’m kind of stumbling around trying to figure this stuff out ?? Thanks for your help!

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