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For anyone else struggling with this:

<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $link) {
    echo '<a href="../"> < Return To '.($link->name).' Projects</a>';
}
?>

This worked in the end. Simple and avoids WordPress’ terrible way of handling and linking categories.

This code from Help is also busted :

<?php
    // Get the ID of a given category
    $category_id = get_cat_ID( 'Category Name' );

    // Get the URL of this category
    $category_link = get_category_link( $category_id );
?>

<!-- Print a link to this category -->
<a>" title="Category Name">Category Name</a>

As it just redirects to the current page, not the Category in Chrome and Firefox. Internet Explorer correctly generates the link however it won’t work if you middle click the link

My permalinks looks like this if it helps:

/projects/%category%/%postname%

Hmm…if I do this:

Custom Structure: /project/%category%/%postname%

and leave the Category base as (notice the s on the end)

Category Base: projects

It’s halfway there but the s drops out when navigating through the links. WordPress cannot handle if they are both the same thing though which would have been perfect. 🙁

Seems to be no way of editing post?

(Instead of %pagename% I meant to say %postname%.)

So I tweaked this a little more…

<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $link) {
    echo '<a href="'.get_cat_ID($link->cat_ID).'"> < Return To '.($link->name).' Projects</a>';
}
?>

it’s better but now all my links look like this:

http://www.site.com/Category/0

with the “0” on the end. How do I get rid of the “0” so my link just displays the category?

Okay last question. Getting there…this code works the best:

<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
    echo '<a href="'.get_category_link($category->cat_ID).'"> < Return To Projects</a>';
}
?>

However how do I put in a dynamic word in front of “Projects” so it changes depending on the category?

Hi apljdi, thanks for replying. 🙂

I understand what you mean although I’m very new to making websites. I’ll have a look at modifying the loop and I’ll do some research on this.

however if it is at all any help, here is the website I’m working on.

http://www.mayrussell.com.au/index.php/projects/

Each post depends upon how many images there are in the gallery. So I’m thinking that in my Custom Fields I have three options:

1) 3 Image Page
2) 4 Image Page
3) 5 Image Page

Thanks again for your help.