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Resolved hyacinthus
(@hyacinthus)

9 years, 3 months ago

I want to get the category of a post. I’ve tried using get_the_category_by_ID without success even though I know I’m using the correct ID. The function does not return the string I expect. Doesn’t seem like it should be difficult to get the category name of a post.

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

9 years, 3 months ago

https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/reference/functions/get_the_category/

needs to be used in the loop, unless you have the ID of the post;

posts can have more than one category – to get only one, see https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/reference/functions/get_the_category/#comment-307

lelandf
(@lelandf)

9 years, 3 months ago

It’s important to note the ID in get_the_category_by_ID refers to the category ID, not the post ID. The function accepts no other parameters besides category ID, so it’s not really useful if you want to get the category of a post.

The above post explains what you need to do. 🙂

Thread Starter hyacinthus
(@hyacinthus)

9 years, 3 months ago

Thanks. I had missed that by_ID uses the category ID. Using the get_the_category works for me now.

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