Wordpress - How To Get Parent Category ID

Question

Wordpress - How To Get Parent Category ID

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my category is  
news
---->sport news

i have a post in

Answer 1

Simply, very simply.

//firstly, load data for your child category
$child = get_category(31);

//from your child category, grab parent ID
$parent = $child->parent;

//load object for parent category
$parent_name = get_category($parent);

//grab a category name
$parent_name = $parent_name->name;

Study get_category

Answer 2

<?php 
    if (is_category()) 
    {
    $thiscat = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) );
    $catid = $thiscat->cat_ID;
    $parent = $thiscat->category_parent;
    if (!empty ($catid) ) {
    $catlist = get_categories(
                                array(
                                'child_of' => $catid,
                                'orderby' => 'id',
                                'order' => 'ASC',
                                'exclude' => $parent,
                                'hide_empty' => '0'
                                ) );

        ?>
            <div class="subcat-list">
                <ul>
                    <?php foreach ($catlist as $category) { ?>
                      <li><a href="<?php echo get_category_link( $category->term_id ); ?>"><?php echo $category->name; ?></a></li>
                      <?php } ?> 
                 </ul>
            </div>
            <?php } } ?>

Answer 3

$thiscat =  get_query_var('cat'); // The id of the current category
$catobject = get_category($thiscat,false); // Get the Category object by the id of current category
$parentcat = $catobject->category_parent; // the id of the parent category