How to get the category title in a post in WordPress?

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1. Use get_the_category() like this:

   <?php
   foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { 
       echo $category->cat_name . ' '; 
   } 
   ?>
   

   It returns a list because a post can have more than one category.

   The documentation also explains how to do this from outside the loop.

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2. You can use

   <?php the_category(', '); ?>
   

   which would output them in a comma separated list.

   You can also do the same for tags as well:

   <?php the_tags('<em>:</em>', ', ', ''); ?>
   

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3. To find the category id, category link and category name in wordpress using php, you can use below code:

   $cat_id = get_cat_ID('Category Name');
   
   $category_link = get_category_link($cat_id);
   
   $category_name = get_cat_name($cat_id);
   
   echo $category_name; // It will print your category name
   

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