get_the_category()

Introduction#

This function returns all categories as an array of the current post or page or the designated post or page.

Syntax#

• get_the_category( $id )

Parameters#

Here is a list of objects of each category that you can print:

• term_id
• name
• slug
• term_group
• term_taxonomy_id
• taxonomy
• description
• parent
• count
• object_id
• filter
• cat_ID
• category_count
• category_description
• cat_name
• category_nicename
• category_parent

Get all names of categories of the post

Code

$categories = get_the_category();
 foreach( $categories as $category ) {
    echo  $category->name . '<br />';
}

Output

All names of categories of the current page, one on each line.

Get all ids of categories of the post

Code

$categories = get_the_category();
 foreach( $categories as $category ) {
    echo  $category->term_id . '<br />';
}

Output

All ids of categories of the current page, one on each line.