Get current category ID of the active page

Question

Looking to pull the category ID of a specific page in WordPress that is listing all posts using that specific category   Tried the below but not working   I am able to get the category name using single term title    category   single term title     false    catid   get cat ID   category       category is displaying  Entertainment  for example  But I also need the ID of  Entertainment    How would I go about this

User · Answer

I think some of the above may work but using the get_the_category function seems tricky and may give unexpected results.

I think the most direct and simple way to access the cat ID in a category page is:

$wp_query->query_vars['cat']

Cheers

User · Answer

You can try using get the category      categories   get the category     category id    categories 0 - gt cat ID

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cats   wp get post terms   post- gt ID   product cat     foreach  cats as  cat     check for category having parent or not except category id 1 which is wordpress default category  Uncategorized      if  cat- gt parent     0   amp  amp   cat- gt term id    1       echo   lt h2 class  link  gt  lt a href    get category link  cat- gt term id      gt    cat- gt name   lt  a gt  lt  h2 gt        break

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Alternative -     catID   the category ID  echo false     EDIT  Above function is deprecated please use get the category

User · Answer

The oldest but fastest way you can use is    cat id   get query var  cat

User · Answer

Tried above for solutions to find cat ID of a post  but nothing worked  used the following instead    obj   get queried object     c id   wp get post categories  obj- gt ID

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I used this for breadcrums in the category template page    cat obj    wp query- gt get queried object     thiscat id    cat obj- gt term id   thiscat   get category  thiscat id    parentcat   get category  thiscat- gt parent

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I found this question whilst looking for exactly what you asked  Unfortunately you have accepted an incorrect answer  For the sake of other people who are trying to achieve what we were trying to achieve  I thought I d post the correct answer    cur cat   get cat ID  single cat title    false       As you said single term title     false   was correctly returning the category title  I m not sure why you would have had troubles with your code  but the above code works flawlessly for me

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If it is a category page you can get id of current category by    category   get category  get query var   cat        cat id    category- gt cat ID    If you want to get category id of any particular category on any page  try using      category id   get cat ID  Category Name

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if you need the category ID  you would get it via get query var  that is capable of retrieving all publicly queryble variables    category id   get query var  cat      here is an example to get the category name   category name   get query var  category name      and of course the all mighty get queried object   queried object   get queried object      that is returning the complete taxonomy term object  when used on a taxonomy-archive page

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I use the get queried object function to get the current category on a category php template page    current category   get queried object      Jordan Eldredge is right  get the category is not suitable here

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