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How can you get the category ID of "category-name" from a nice URL (e.g. http://www.example.com/category/category-name/)?

I need to retrieve the category ID from a URL of wordpress because this function will be used in wp_nav_menu() since the design of the site is to have a dropdown of latest post under the category, so if it is not a category of wordpress (link to home page or about page), then there should be on dropdown.

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  • You mean, from the URL? Or from within the page?
    – Pekka
    May 28, 2013 at 15:26
  • From within a page, but need to get the category ID based from a URL. To why, I'm placing the category links to Wordpress's built in Navigation.
    – Earvin Bryan S. Co
    May 28, 2013 at 15:29

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Try this,

$cat = get_category_by_path('http://www.example.com/category/category-name/')

Reference http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_category_by_path

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You will want a couple of steps:

  1. get_category_by_slug( $slug ) - Call this with the URL fragment (the slug) as an arg, and it'll give you a category object.
  2. $category->cat_ID - Call this on the $category object to return the ID of the category.

A one-liner would look like: $slug_ID = get_category_by_slug($slug)->cat_ID;

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