Comments on: Get the Category ID in WordPress

By: Shahar

Shahar — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:48:58 +0000

Sorry, try this:
$cat = get_query_var(‘cat’);

By: Kuba

Kuba — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:33:35 +0000

Thanks for that, worked like a charm!

By: Steve G.

Steve G. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:41:57 +0000

Thank you for sharing this code.

By: Curtis Henson

Curtis Henson — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:46:29 +0000

David,

you just need to change line 3 from

$q = "cat=" . $id;

and add a negative sign infront of the category id like

$q = "cat=-" . $id;

that should work.

or just skip the $q part and do it like this:
query_posts("cat=-" . $id);

By: David

David — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:57:08 +0000

Hi Curtis – if you’re still tending to comments on this page well over a year after posting ;) I’ve got a question.

Any idea how to apply this in a scenario where you want to EXCLUDE the category in question?

Basically, just like the basic example of how to use the function that you gave in the post – difference being in the ‘query_posts();’ tag, how do you say “exclude $q”? Where the variable $q is the cat ID you’ve just found using the get_cat_id function… make sense?

By: Josh Stauffer

Josh Stauffer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:44:10 +0000

Baller!

This wasn’t exactly what I was looking for but it led me to try get_cat_name() and for this, I thank you!

-Josh

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:29:53 +0000

I ran into the same problem as someone further up.. How to get the category ID from the category page.

Use get_query_var(‘cat’)

Thanks for a great tip.

By: Shahar

Shahar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:10 +0000

single_cat_title();

By: der

der — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:26:22 +0000

Just what I needed. Thanks for sharing (btw, your site rocks! )

By: Curtis Henson

Curtis Henson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:37:39 +0000

Try posting the code without should work.