get current category ID php

March 28, 20232 Views

I’m trying to get category ID of the current archive displayed.

I tried:

// category (can be a parent category)
$current_cat_ID = get_query_var('cat');
//
print_r ($current_cat_ID);

It doesn’t print anything…

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3 comments

Anonymous says:

March 28, 2023 at 2:25 am
you can use get_queried_object()
```
$category = get_queried_object();
echo $category->term_id;
```
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Anonymous says:

March 28, 2023 at 2:25 am

A little bit faster than receiving the object and echo the term ID afterwards is to directly use get_queried_object_id().

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Anonymous says:

March 28, 2023 at 2:25 am
If you want to fecth in category page,you can get id of current category by:
```
$category = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) );
$cat_id = $category->cat_ID;
```
If you want to get category id of any particular category on any page, you can try using below code:
```
$category_id = get_cat_ID('Category Name');
```
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