how to show category description only on first category page ?

I have categories on my blog that are paged. I want to show the Category Descriptions on Page 1 of the category pages. How can I achieve this ?

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

use this <?php echo category_description( $category_id ); ?>

 

In the archive.php file of your theme, use the get_query_var and is_category functions too.

Could look something like this

<?get_header()?>
<?
if (is_category()) {
  $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
  if ($page == 1) {
    echo category_description(); //you don't need to include the category id on the actual category page - wordpress figures it out. 
  }
}
?>

Code (markup):

 

sorry for responding late, but your solutions worked. thanks a lot, friends !