WordPress Tutorial - get_the

Introduction

This function returns all categories as an array of the current post or page or the designated post or page.

Parameter	Details
$id	(int) (Optional) default to current post ID. The post ID.

Please note that get_the_category() returns an array, which means that you can't directly echo the value returned.

Here is a list of objects of each category that you can print:

Code

$categories = get_the_category();
 foreach( $categories as $category ) {
    echo  $category->name . '<br />';
}

Output

All names of categories of the current page, one on each line.

Code

$categories = get_the_category();
 foreach( $categories as $category ) {
    echo  $category->term_id . '<br />';
}

Output

All ids of categories of the current page, one on each line.

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