Displaying Category / Slug Name | WordPress.org

James182
(@james182)

13 years, 1 month ago

Hi, I was wondering if there is any short snippet of code that allows you to display the current category you are in but also displays a hyphen in the middle, like you find with the permalinks. So if i was in the category “Music News” I could echo out the word “music-news”. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

13 years, 1 month ago

to be used in category.php (or achive.php)

<?php echo get_category(get_query_var('cat'))->slug; ?>
Ganners
(@ganners)

13 years, 1 month ago
```
$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
print $categories->category_nicename;
```
Is that what you’re after?
Thread Starter James182
(@james182)

13 years, 1 month ago

@ganners Thanks for your reply but for some reason it is now showing anything, not even in the source.

@alchymyth That snippet of code works great!, another quick question is, if i am on the homepage for example, it shows “home” or on the search page it displays “Search”, assuming be a if and else statement? (sorry i am learning as go along)

esmi
(@esmi)

13 years, 1 month ago

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

Thread Starter James182
(@james182)

13 years, 1 month ago

thx for the link esmi, that was really helpfull

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