Add category to post meta

Question

I'm trying to add the category to the post-meta.php file so the blog page will not only show the author and date, but also the category for each post. However, I can't seem to find any correct way to do so. The current code is the following:

<span class="post-meta">
<?php
$author = "<a href='" . esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ) . "'>" . esc_html( get_the_author() ) . "</a>";
$date   = "<a href='" . esc_url( get_month_link( get_the_date( 'Y' ), get_the_date( 'n' ) ) ) . "'>" . date_i18n( get_option( 'date_format' ), strtotime( get_the_date( 'r' ) ) ) . "</a>";
?>
<?php printf( _x( 'Published by %1$s on %2$s', 'This blog post was published by some author on some date', 'author' ), $author, $date ); ?>

Could someone please help me do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

you can use get_the_category_list() it will show a list of the categories of the post, you can also use get_the_category() it will return an array, you can iterate it to format it, you can find examples here.

Answer 2

<?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { ?> <a href="<?php echo $category->name; ?>"><?php echo $category->name; ?></a>

use echo $category->name to get category name Or use echo $category->category_nicename to get class name