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1. mercuryfenix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I want my category template to load a landing page with an identical slug since the category description in WordPress doesn't have a rich text editor.

   So if the URL to a category page looks like this:
   http://mysite.com/?cat=163

   Then the only data I have to work with is the category ID. What is the easiest way to get the category's slug?

2. mercuryfenix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   My solution:
   

   // pass single_cat_title("", false) to this function
   function get_category_slug($single_cat_title)
   {
   	global $wpdb;
   	return $wpdb->get_var("SELECT slug FROM $wpdb->terms, $wpdb->term_taxonomy WHERE $wpdb->terms.term_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id AND taxonomy='category' AND name='$single_cat_title'");
   }

   Use it like this:
   

   // get page with identical slug as category
   $name = single_cat_title("", false);
   $slug = get_category_slug($name);
   query_posts("pagename=$slug");

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