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I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I am just learning PHP and Wordpress. It's probably very simple.

I have a site where the top-level nav is all parent categories, with the child categories as dropdowns. The pages are all pulling from category.php.

On the child category pages, I would like to display the current child category page title (single_cat_title, I think) for styling, but I want to exclude this feature on the parent category pages.

I've been trying to write this very simply using get_the_category() as per this example in the codex:

$category = get_the_category(); echo $category[0]->cat_name;

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Add a check wherever you're displaying the title:

//Anything greater than 0 means the category has parents, 0 means no parent, child category
if($category->category_parent > 0){
    echo $category[0]->cat_name;
}

This should help.

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  • thanks Rutwick. So I dropped ` $category = get_the_category(); if ($category->category_parent > 0) { ?> <h1><?php $category[0]->cat_name; } ?> </h1>` into my template, but nothing prints. Am I missing something? One thing I realized is that all the posts are assigned to multiple categories - could that be messing it up? (With the appropriate php tags open and close)
    – Max
    Mar 27, 2012 at 4:54
  • Try a print_r on $category to check if its right
    – Rutwick Gangurde
    Mar 27, 2012 at 5:11
  • Hi Rutwick - thank you again, that helped me work it out.
    – Max
    Mar 29, 2012 at 22:11

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