[Resolved] Template tags for parent/child category separated

[William]

Okay, thank you very much for all your help on this, I REALLY really appreciate it

[Tom]

No problem!

[William]

Hi Tom,

Believe it or not, I’ve been working on this and after browsing the web, I have managed some shortcodes which seem to work, so I thought to share it with you since this topic!

To show just the child category of the post (linked):

add_shortcode( 'child_category', function() {

$category_id = get_the_category(get_the_ID());
$child = get_category($category_id[0]->term_id);
$childlink = get_category_link( $child ); 

return '<a href="'.$childlink.'">'.$child->name.'</a>';
	
} );

To show just the parent category of a post (linked):

add_shortcode( 'parent_category', function() {
  
$category_id = get_the_category(get_the_ID());
$child = get_category($category_id[0]->term_id);
$parent = get_category($child->parent);
$parentlink = get_category_link( $parent ); 
	
return '<a href="'.$parentlink.'">'.$parent->name.'</a>';

} );

I know you could probably see the code isn’t efficient, but it seems to work for what I needed it for!
You can see it in action here in the dark purple header element.

Will

[Tom]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

[Author]

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