newbieee

That’s what I also thought, but your solution still keeps me giving two categories.

I read that some of the functions you can’t use inside or outside The Loop so i guess that’s the problem (i’m in header.php and i didn’t call <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> so i think I’m outside the loop – is that right?).
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/single_cat_title-not-displaying-anything

I temporarily solved it with this:

foreach (get_categories('exclude=1&parent=0&hide_empty=1&number=6') as $category) {
          if (is_single()) {
            $cat_flag = false;
            foreach(get_the_category() as $cat)
              if ($category->cat_ID == $cat->cat_ID)
              {
                $cat_flag = true;
                break;
              }
            if ($cat_flag) {
              //do my code
            }
}

But simplier solution would be nicer..