How to: find WordPress category ID

Some themes requires that you fill a form field with a category ID. It may be easy to find a category ID if you’re an advanced WordPres user, but what about beginners? Here’s a very simple manner to find any category ID.

Once you're logged in your WordPress dashboard, go to Manage and then in Categories.
Simply put your mouse cursor on the "edit" link related to the category you want to know the ID and look on your browser's status bar: As you can see on the screenshot below, 1 is the id of the category.

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35 Responses

bub

Oct 23 2008 11:31

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jbj

Oct 23 2008 18:27

@bub: Thanks :o)

Bradford

Dec 29 2008 08:18

Hey thanks for that pointer.

Banago

Jan 03 2009 23:59

This is a little trick that most WordPress users don’t know. It was a wise think to post it in your great blog.

Banago

Jan 04 2009 00:02

This is a little trick that most WordPress users don’t know. It was a wise thing to post it in your great blog.

Liz

Jan 26 2009 19:13

Hi,

My site is set up to show custom the category and post title in the URL. Is there another way to find the category ID’s? because mine no longer show as part of the URL?

Thanks, Liz