Title: Getting category description
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Getting category description

 *  Resolved [Yahya98](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yahya98/)
 * (@yahya98)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-category-description/)
 * Okay, so i hope i dont get ignored like my last post [here ](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-something-at-the-bottomtop-of-the-post?replies=5)
   
   I managed to fix the problem on my own, but now im having trouble getting the
   category name. Im currently using this script to get the category description:
 *     ```
       $cat_name = get_the_category( get_the_ID );
       $category_id = get_cat_ID( $cat_name );
       echo category_description( $category_id );
       ```
   
 * The problem is, it doesn’t get the category name… when i replace $cat_name with
   the category name, it works on my website. The thing is, i don’t want the same
   thing on every post i have, i want it to have different description for each 
   category.
 * Just tell me what’s wrong with the script while getting the category name, or
   some other simpler way to do this.
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [Yahya98](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yahya98/)
 * (@yahya98)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-category-description/#post-6205683)
 * Nvm

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-category-description/#post-6205683)
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