WordPress get category ID from URL

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Danielp picture Danielp · Oct 9, 2012 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

I have hard time trying to find the solution, does somebody know how to get this:

I have one WordPress post in more than one category, but only one is permalink category. I need to get the ID only of that permalink category (I need this info so I can take few latest posts from permalink category via custom query).

url looks like this http://domain.com/category-name/post-title

I need that "category-name" ID.

Answer

Rees McIvor picture Rees McIvor · Feb 3, 2015

A Good one to use is:

<?php $page_object = get_queried_object(); ?>
<h1><?php echo $page_object->cat_name; ?></h1>

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