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1. olikid
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi There,

   I'm working on a custom theme that's using the TDO Tag fix plugin to allow for filtering posts based on category then tag.

   In the theme, I've created a custom category template that then links through to the appropriate tag filed under each category - for example

   Current Page URL:
   http://xxx.com/category/

   Link to tag filter:
   http://xxx.com/category/?tag=blah

   I need a way of being able to dynamically output the current category slug for use in linking through the tags.

   Something like <?php echo get_query_var('slug'); ?>

   Although obviously that doesn't work (<?php echo get_query_var('tag_id'); ?> does for the tag ID though though for example)

   I've spent a couple of hours looking for a solution to what I though was a pretty simple issue - maybe I've just overlooked something pretty simple.

   Thanks!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

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

3. olikid
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   YOU sir, have saved me HOURS!

   Thank you so so much.

   It's not at all obvious how to find that. Literally spent hours looking.

   Thank you.

4. johnmcelborough
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi alchymyth

   The code above really helped me so thanks very much

   Does anyone know what the equivalent code would be to achieve the same thing on a single post page i.e. get the category slug of the category which the current post is within?

   Thanks again

   john

5. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   <?php
   foreach( get_the_category($post->ID) as $cat ) { echo $cat->slug; }; ?>

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category

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