wp-includes/general-template.php:1822Displays category, tag, term, or author description.
$beforestringoptional''$afterstringoptional''function the_archive_description( $before = '', $after = '' ) { $description = get_the_archive_description(); if ( $description ) { echo $before . $description . $after; }}Introduced in 4.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/general-template.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.