How to get the term description in a taxonomy term archive query?

Question

I'm creating a template for a custom taxonomy for my theme.

At the beginning of the page, before the loop that lists all the posts associated to a term of that taxonomy, I want to output the description for that term.

I have tried with

term_description()

but it doesn't work, no output... get_the_terms and other functions I know are meant to work within a loop for individual posts (with post->ID)...

Anyone has a clue on how to achieve this? many thanks

Answer 1

The term_description() function returns the description rather than echoing or printing it.

To fix the issue, use:

echo term_description();