Display a post's category within the wordpress loop?

Question

Okay, so I have a Wordpress template that I created that only displays posts that have the \"workout\" category associated with it. Within the loop that displays those, I want t

Answer 1

Get the category objects:

$cats = get_the_category($id);

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Just echo the name:

echo $cats[0]->name;

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If you want to output a link, use this:

    name; ?>

Note: instead of wp_get_post_categories($id), you could just use get_the_category().

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Update: if you want to display all the categories, just loop through them:

    
        name; ?>