Category title without link | add category title dynamically as widget title

Found this function and added it to the functions.php file.

if(!function_exists('get_catbynicename'))
{
	function get_catbynicename($category_nicename)
	{
	global $wpdb;

	$cat_id -= 0; 	// force numeric
	$name = $wpdb->get_var('SELECT cat_ID FROM '.$wpdb->categories.' WHERE category_nicename="'.$category_nicename.'"');

	return $name;
	}
}

And then adding this code to where you want the cat title to go (based on the sidebar code):

<?php if ( function_exists('get_catbynicename') ) : else : ?>

  <?php if(is_home()) {?>

    <?php } ?>

    <?php endif; ?>

But it doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong?

I could bypass the widget title function by using a text widget, and then placing the title in the text field. But this is a bit of a ugly hack.

Should be able to pull the current category title based on the current post. Or at least it does using the ‘<?php the_category(‘,’) ?>’ function. The php in the core category file is too complex for me too figure out so far. Preferable is not to change the core files.

My bad and my apologies

Correction: It turns out that this works to show a category title in a post:

<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
    echo $category->cat_name . ' ';
}
?>

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/166373?replies=2

The previous example didn’t work. I misread the titles on the webpage.