Following code can be used to get the category of the current post which you are dealing with
You can use the get_the_category( $post->ID ) to get the category. What you have pass here is the ID of the post. You can get the ID of the post using the $post global variable
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global $post; $postcat = get_the_category( $post->ID ); if ( ! empty( $postcat ) ) { echo esc_html( $postcat[0]->name ); } |
Use print_r($postcat) to see what is coming with category object