I too would like to know this
The theme I am using relies heavily on using the theme numbers in the index.php and other files to set up what content is pulled where.
I don’t particularly like (or enjoy) having to fire up phpMyAdmin and then browse the databases everytime I add a new category name and want to add its number to the theme files.
This is made especially troublesome now that tags are sequentially numbered in the same table as the categories.
Gaz
In Manage->Categories, place your mouse over the Category Name you are trying to find the ID for and the ‘cat_ID’ will show as part of the URL displayed in the browser status bar. In FireFox you can show the status bar by checking the Status bar choice under View. A more complicated method to finding the Category ID is to use something like phpMyAdmin to look at the database table wp_terms and find the row where name column is your Category Description. The term_id on that row will be your Category ID.
