Get Wordpress Category from Single Post

Question

I m finishing up a WP theme  and I m on the single php template  I m having some issues because I need to access the parent category that a post is in in order to display certain images and XML content   Here is an example of what I m talking about  The following is the end url of a single post    andrew leaf-art-2    andrew  is the category  and leaf-art-2 is the single post  When I am on the single post  I am having trouble getting single cat title    to return the category that the current post is in  I am using single cat title    instead of the category    because it displays the string value of the category which I then use to place a picture of the artist  whose category this is  on their posts  I don t have any use for the url  I just need the string with the category name   Any good ways of doing this  I have been searching the Wordpress Codex and lots of forums  and haven t found any answers yet     The following was my original post   I have set up a category called  artists  which when I run single cat title     false   I can get the string value of the category and then use it to search for the appropriate artist image using XML   This works fine on the category php template page   The problem is that when I m actually inside of a single post that has the  artists  category  single cat title    doesn t output any information to the page  thereby keeping me from accessing the XML data   I need to  while in the  artists     sample  post  be able to get from WP the category   P S  the above category is one of many that is using this setup  which is why I can t hardcode it

User · Accepted Answer

How about get the category   You can then do   category   get the category     firstCategory    category 0 - gt cat name

User · Answer

lt div class  quot post category quot  gt           lt  php  category   get the category                  allcategory   get the category             foreach   allcategory as  category              gt              lt a class  quot btn quot  gt  lt  php echo  category- gt cat name     gt  lt  a gt           lt  php                      gt    lt  div gt

User · Answer

For the lazy and the learning  to put it into your theme  Rfvgyhn s full code   lt  php  category   get the category     firstCategory    category 0 - gt cat name  echo  firstCategory   gt

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