Hi. When you display posts by category, how do you find out what the post category is? In other words, how do you determine the number that's after "cat"? Is there a particular function call I could use? I'm trying to add information that depends on the category ID in a sidebar. Thanks!
[resolved] Determining Current Category ID (4 posts)
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michaelhuang
Posted 5 years ago # -
When a category is created it is given an ID which is visible from the Manage -> Categories menu. You can create categories there or create them from a post.
Hope that helps.
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Posted 5 years ago #Nex, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that's not quite what I meant.
To clarify, I'm trying to display custom category descriptions for the category pages (that appear when you click on a particular category) by changing my sidebar.php. To do this, I need to know the ID of the current category, the one that the user clicked. The function I've been trying to use, get_the_category(), returns all the categories to which a certain category belongs, which doesn't help me.
Is there any way for me to get that number?
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Posted 5 years ago #Resolved by a friend in a hackish sort of way: steal the number directly from the top using something like $cat_ID = $_GET['cat'];
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