title: Magento displays subcategories description on category list.phtml
body: <p>I got a category page with list of subcategories in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magento" rel="nofollow">Magento</a>. The list has an image and name, but I also want to display those subcategories' description. I tried simply to add </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;htmlEscape($_category-&gt;getDescription()) ?&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it's not working.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I get subcategories in a traditional way:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php if (!$_categoryCollection-&gt;count()): ?&gt;
  &lt;p class="note-msg"&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('There are no subcategories matching the selection.') ?&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;?php else: ?&gt;
  &lt;div class="category-products"&gt;
      &lt;?php $_collectionSize = $_categoryCollection-&gt;count() ?&gt;
      &lt;?php $_columnCount = $this-&gt;getColumnCount(); ?&gt;
      &lt;?php $i=0; foreach ($_categoryCollection as $_category): ?&gt;
          &lt;?php if ($i++%$_columnCount==0): ?&gt;
          &lt;ul class="products-grid"&gt;
          &lt;?php endif ?&gt;
              &lt;li class="item&lt;?php if(($i-1)%$_columnCount==0): ?&gt; first&lt;?php elseif($i%$_columnCount==0): ?&gt; last&lt;?php endif; ?&gt;"&gt;
                  &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $_category-&gt;getUrl() ?&gt;" class="product-image"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" src="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getCategoryImage($_category, 214, 184); ?&gt;" width="214" height="184" alt="&lt;?php echo $_category-&gt;getName() ?&gt;" /&gt;
                  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;htmlEscape($_category-&gt;getName()) ?&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
                  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;?php echo $_category-&gt;getDescription() ?&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
                  &lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;?php if ($i%$_columnCount==0 || $i==$_collectionSize): ?&gt;
          &lt;/ul&gt;
          &lt;?php endif ?&gt;
      &lt;?php endforeach ?&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried to update the public function <code>getChildrenCategories($category)</code> in the <code>category.php</code> file by adding <code>-&gt;addAttributeToSelect(’description’)</code>, but it's not working.</p>