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Get Category Slug of Current Category in WordPress

April 12, 2026 by Mark

How to Get Category Slug of Current Category in WordPress When developing a WordPress theme or a plugin, you may have come across times when you may wish to get category slug in certain pages. May be you are modifying the WordPress category archives or you may have some other reason for wanting to retrieve … Read more

Force Sub Categories To Use Parent Category Templates

April 10, 2026 by Mark

How to Force Sub Categories To Use Parent Category Templates When a viewer clicks on a link to one of the Categorieson your WordPress site, he or she is taken to a page listing the Posts in that particular Category in chronological order. WordPress uses `category.php` template as a default layout to display all category listing … Read more