[Resolved] How to Generate Category Links of Current Post

[Joezer]

Hello,

I am trying to make the categories of a current post show up with manual code as I am using my own post header area. My code is:

<?php
$category = get_the_category();
$first_category = $category[0];
echo sprintf( ‘%s‘, get_category_link( $first_category ), $first_category->name );
?>

The problem with this code is that it only works for posts with one category. If a post has multiple categories, it will only show the category that is closest to letter A. And not as Category A, Category B, Category C like what happens when using GP default settings.

[Fernando]

Hi Joezer,

Here is something you may refer to:

<?php
$categories = get_the_category();

        foreach ( $categories as $key=>$category ) {
					echo sprintf( '%s', get_category_link( $category ), $category->name );

        }
?>

Hope this helps! 🙂

[Joezer]

The code works thanks, but I don’t know how to add a separator, can you show me how? So by default it’s a comma, would it be possible to change it into a dash?

[Fernando]

I see. If that’s the case here is an example of an approach you may try to accomplish this.

<?php
$categories = get_the_category();
				$myseparator = '<span> | </span>';
				$count = 0;
        foreach ( $categories as $key=>$category ) {
					if ($count===0) {
							echo '<a href="' . get_category_link( $category ) . '">' . $category->name . '</a>';
					} else {
							echo $myseparator;
							echo '<a href="' . get_category_link( $category ) . '">' . $category->name . '</a>';
					}
					$count++;
        }
?>

Kindly replace | with your preferred separator. You may also replace $category->name with get_category_link( $category ) if you wish or change the HTML structure completely if you prefer.

Edit: Here is something shorter that would also work:

<?php
echo strip_tags( get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), 'category', '', ', ') );
?>

reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_terms/

Kindly use which you prefer.

Hope this helps! 🙂

[Joezer]

Hello,

Sorry, I was AFK for the weekend and weren’t able to try the codes out. Can you show me how to make this a clickable link?

echo strip_tags( get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), ‘category’, ”, ‘, ‘) );

I tried it out and it is only generating the text

[David]

Hi there,

you don’t need the strip_tags – use this:

echo get_the_term_list( get_the_ID(), 'category', '', ', ');

[Joezer]

Works now, I’ve also managed to change the separator using the codes provided. Many thanks, Fernando and David

[David]

Glad we could be of help

[Author]

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