Here you go:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_the_category
Display all categories:
<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
echo $cat->cat_name . ' ';
} ?>
Display only the first category:
<?php
$cat = get_the_category();
$cat = $cat[0];
echo $cat->cat_name;
?>
Instead of echoing those, you can use $cat->cat_name as your variable.
Thanks a bunch Im using this code to get the category name only and make it the variable $postname.
<?php
$cat = get_the_category();
$cat = $cat[0];
$postname = $cat->cat_name;
?>
Perfect. I’m happy that works for you.
Can you mark this “Resolved” so other people know? Thanks.
I’m giving this a try too, but it shows only the first category, not the one currently being viewed.
Wouldn’t it be easier to pull the information from the url ? http://www.myurl.com/category/currentcategory
Im using this function on my homepage. No way to pass anything to there.
OK, I was trying to do the same thing, took me ages to work this out but got it now …
Say, I have a post which has 2 assigned categories ‘journal’ and ‘family’
I want a special page header if user goes to archive pages for ‘family’
in archive.php go to this line:
<?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
now I added:
<?php
$theCat = ”;
foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
$aCat = $cat->cat_name;
if ($aCat == ‘family’) $theCat = $cat->cat_name;
}
if ($theCat == ‘sylvia’) {
echo “my special code here”;
}
?>
