When displaying a category how can I tell what category it is? Say I'm on http://www.example.com/category/quotes
, how can I get quotes
aside from parsing the URL? I tried get_the_category()
but it returns an array of all the categories of the first post shown in the page.
2 Answers
This should get you category object with ID, slug and rest of info:
$wp_query->get_queried_object();
You can get the category name with:
single_cat_title();
Reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/single_cat_title
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thanks for pointing me to that function, unfortunately I can only accept one answer and I picked Rarst's as I can make good use of the extra info returned by that method Nov 3, 2010 at 7:49
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