Title: Displaying post categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Displaying post categories

 *  [akiryk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akiryk/)
 * (@akiryk)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-post-categories/)
 * For each posting in my blog, I want to display a list of its categories, including
   links to those categories. In other words, something like this:
    **My Post Title.**
   Posted in: [Category 1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-post-categories/?output_format=md),
   [category 2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-post-categories/?output_format=md),
   [category 3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-post-categories/?output_format=md)
 * My problem is that I only want to show the first 5 categories each post is posted
   in (because I don’t want the list to get super long).
 * Is there a way to do that?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-post-categories/#post-1489575)
 * The category list is usually generated by the statement:
 * `<?php the_category(', '); ?>`
 * Replace that statement with this:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $count = 0;
       $limit = 5;
       $sep = '';
       foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
          if (++%count > $limit) break;
          $cat_name = $category->cat_name;
          $cat_link = get_category_link( $category->cat_ID );
          echo "<a href='$cat_link' title='$cat_name'>$sep$cat_name</a>";
          $sep = ', ';
       }
       ?>
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-post-categories/#post-1489575)
 * Status: not resolved

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