SofaRider » category ID http://rider.sofarider.com WordPress Themes, Widgets, Development | WEB & Graphic Design Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:40:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Get Category ID by name and vice versa http://rider.sofarider.com/blog/wordpress-tips/get-category-id-by-name-and-vice-versa/ http://rider.sofarider.com/blog/wordpress-tips/get-category-id-by-name-and-vice-versa/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:35:14 +0000 Feeleep http://rider.sofarider.com/?p=164 slug_list_viewHave you ever wanted to find out certain category ID by its name or maybe do that in reverse? Maybe I’m missing something but there’s no method to achieve that via built-in WordPress functions so here is quick and dirty way of getting category ID by category name and vice versa.

Get cat ID by name


<?php
	$category_slug = "myCategory"; // just an example name/slug
	$category_ID = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT term_id FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE slug = '" . $category_slug . "'" );
?>

Get cat name by ID


<?php
	$category_ID = 1; // just an example ID
	$category_name = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT name FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE term_id = " . $category_id );
?>
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