SDAC Inc | Chicagoland Web Development » get_cat_name http://www.sandboxdev.com Just another Sandbox Development and Consulting Inc. Sites site Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:57:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Get Category Name By ID (WordPress)http://www.sandboxdev.com/2009/06/29/get-category-name-by-id-wordpress/ http://www.sandboxdev.com/2009/06/29/get-category-name-by-id-wordpress/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:45:05 +0000 Jennifer Zelazny http://www.sandboxdev.com/blog/733/get-category-name-by-id-wordpress/ I have been working on a new WordPress theme (to be released this week) and in one of the admin screens – I needed to get the category name by using the category ID. To do this (in or outside of the loop):

<?php get_cat_name( $cat_id ) ?>

Super simple – super helpful.

Reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_cat_name

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