Title: Categories Hook
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Categories Hook

 *  [The Dro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desaad37/)
 * (@desaad37)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-hook/)
 * I’m trying to call the product category above each item on my page. Is there 
   a hook or php function that I can use to do that? I’ve tried everything from 
   get_the_categories() to get the terms functions and nothing is working. The only
   one I got to work is the one that calls the categories on top of the /products
   page but in my loop it’s repeating all 4 categories I’ve created on top of each
   product. I just want to display the first category for that specific product.
 * techprosecurity.com/products
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ecommerce-product-catalog/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ecommerce-product-catalog/)

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 *  Plugin Author [ndre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndre/)
 * (@ndre)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-hook/#post-6253378)
 * Hi!
 * You can use single_product_begin or before_product_entry hooks to show something
   on the top of product page.
 * To show product categories that the current product is attached to you need to
   get categories IDs. The best way is to use [wp_get_post_terms ](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_terms)
   function. The taxonomy name for products is al_product-cat.
 * When you have the categories ID’s you can show them e.g. with [[show_categories]](http://implecode.com/docs/ecommerce-product-catalog/category-listing-shortcode/)
   shortcode.
 * You can see how eCommerce Product Catalog does it in [show_related_categories](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ecommerce-product-catalog/trunk/functions/functions.php#L460)
   function.

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [products](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/products/)

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 * Last reply from: [ndre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndre/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-hook/#post-6253378)
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