WordPress – Get Category Name of Current Post
This post shows you how to get category name of the current post in WordPress.
To do this, we can use get_the_category()
function as shown right below.
<?php
global $post;
$current_post_id = $post->ID;
$category = get_the_category( $current_post_id );
if ( ! empty( $category ) ) {
$category_name = $category[0]->name;
}
In the above code, we first get the current post id of the post using $post->ID
, then pass it to the get_the_category()
function to get the category data, and finally get the category name via name
property.