How to get the category name for a custom post type? | WordPress.org

Resolved Tony
(@tonyzg)

11 years, 7 months ago
Hi!

I need to get a category (catalog) name within the loop below:
```
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'project', 'post_status' => 'publish'));
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); 

...

endwhile
```
Tried get_the_category() function but it is not getting me a category name, probably because this is custom post type/taxonomy.

Any ideas? Thx!

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Chandan Kumar
(@chandanonline4u)

11 years, 7 months ago
Try the following to retrieve categories:
```
the_category(', ');
```
Thread Starter Tony
(@tonyzg)

11 years, 7 months ago

Nope, returns nothing!
Chandan Kumar
(@chandanonline4u)

11 years, 7 months ago
Ok. Try get_the_term function as follows:
```
get_the_terms( $id, $taxonomy );
```
Reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_terms
Thread Starter Tony
(@tonyzg)

11 years, 7 months ago
YAY! That worked! Thank you Chandan so much!!!

I accutaly needed to get all categories for a specifiec post, delimited by spaces, so here it is:
```
$terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'your_taxonomy_here' );
if ($terms && ! is_wp_error($terms)) :
	$term_slugs_arr = array();
	foreach ($terms as $term) {
	    $term_slugs_arr[] = $term->slug;
	}
	$terms_slug_str = join( " ", $term_slugs_arr);
endif;
echo $terms_slug_str;
```

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