Custom post category name showing empty

Question

I have a custom post type and category. I have the below function on my page. I am getting the post but I am not getting the category name on the page.

I am getting the empty array

array(0) { } 

Below is the function code.

<?php 
function blogView( $atts ){
  global $post;

  if($atts['cat']=='All'){      
    $blog_post = get_posts(array(
      'showposts' => 80, //add -1 if you want to show all posts
      'post_type' => 'blog'
      ));
  }else{  
    $blog_post = get_posts(array(
      'showposts' => 10, //add -1 if you want to show all posts
      'post_type' => 'blog',
      'tax_query' => array(
        array(
      'taxonomy' => 'blogs_cats',
      'field' => 'slug',
      'terms' => $atts['cat'] //pass your term name here
        )
      ))
       );
  }
     
$data='<ul class="post-grid-list">';
    foreach($blog_post as $t){
    $tid = $t->ID;

         /*Display category code here*/
          $category_detail=get_the_category('4');//$post->ID
          foreach($category_detail as $cd){
          echo $cd->cat_name;
          }
        /*end here*/


         $data.='';

    }
    $data.='</ul>';

    return $data; 

}
add_shortcode( 'blog', 'blogView');

Answer 1

Note that the get_the_category() documentation stated that:

Note: This function only returns results from the default "category" taxonomy. For custom taxonomies use get_the_terms().

So if I guessed it correctly that you're trying to display the blogs_cats terms for the current post, then you should use get_the_terms() instead.

There's also get_the_term_list() if you just want to display a list of terms like Foo Bar, Term 2 where each term links to their own archive page.

Examples:

1. Manually loop through the terms returned by get_the_terms() to output a simple list of term names (only):

   $category_detail = get_the_terms( $tid, 'blogs_cats' );
   
   $cats = array();
   if ( is_array( $category_detail ) ) {
       foreach ( $category_detail as $cd ) {
           $cats[] = $cd->name;
       }
   }
   
   $data .= "<li>blogs_cats for $tid: " . implode( ', ', $cats ) . '</li>';
   

2. Or use get_the_term_list() to output a list of term names + links:

   $cat_list = get_the_term_list( $tid, 'blogs_cats', '<i>', ', ', '</i>' );
   $data .= "<li>blogs_cats for $tid: $cat_list</li>";
   

Additionally, you should call shortcode_atts() to ensure that the cat argument exists in $atts (e.g. when using just [blog], i.e. without specifying any parameters). E.g.

function blogView( $atts ){
    global $post;

    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
        'cat' => 'All',
    ), $atts );

    // ... your code.
}