How to: find WordPress category ID

85 Responses

bub

Oct 23 2008 11:31

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jbj

Oct 23 2008 18:27

@bub: Thanks )

Bradford

Dec 29 2008 08:18

Hey thanks for that pointer.

Banago

Jan 03 2009 23:59

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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

Harro

Apr 11 2009 14:45

wauw thanks a lot!
That is what I needed!

Harro

montana flynn

Apr 25 2009 22:41

thanks! this helped with my slider. It was just showing the most recent posts that were right under it. lol

Nathan

Jun 05 2009 18:31

thanks, unfortunately this doesn’t work in safari. helped solved an issue I was having defining categories. kudos.

Alan

Jun 24 2009 13:09

When you’re up at 4am and need info fast, it’s sites like yours that are lifesavers! 3 Cheers and thanks!

Dino

Jun 27 2009 01:33

Wow, that simple, thanks!

Diane

Aug 14 2009 15:24

Thank you SO MUCH!

Edward

Sep 08 2009 18:45

Thanks for the tip. In 2.8.4 you can also click on Posts>Categories to see the category ID. There is also a plugin that shows the IDs. Great site. Keep up the good work.

Duy

Sep 10 2009 20:01

Thank you SO SO SO MUCH. I spent over 2 days figuring out how to send post to WordPress using XMLRPC with chosen category. I am struggling because WordPress doesnt like ‘category name’. I have no idea how to find category id until now. Your tips make my day. Thank you .

Katie

Oct 13 2009 23:03

You ROCK! Thanks….you saved me!

Sir Norman

Nov 18 2009 21:49

you are the best

Nov 19 2009 18:52

I am glad to see so many poeple being helped out by this wonderful site.

Dido

Dec 29 2009 08:36

Agreed, when you are up late learning and don’t have time to read every help file it’s sites like this that keep things moving on the development front. Many many Thanks!

Dec 29 2009 22:05

Thanks to the WordPress community. You are always a comment away from help in the great WP community.

Shanti

Jan 03 2010 20:49

Great! Thank You!

Jan 04 2010 19:24

Welcome aboard @Shanti.

Chris

Jan 15 2010 16:56

Wow! Thank you so much. This has saved me a bunch of time, and now I can use my theme to it’s fullest!

Jan 15 2010 20:25

@Chris this is what makes the WP community so vibrant. Make sure to pass your learnings to others too.

Rusty Beller

Jan 16 2010 00:59

Sweet!! Thanks for the quick info and screenshots.!

Jan 18 2010 20:21

It all shows up on your dashboard. Pretty neat software to use. Very handy too.

kaydash

Jan 21 2010 03:04

totally useful for me..thanks for tips..really appreciate it..

kpkumar

Jan 21 2010 19:02

Thanks very much. You explained in a simple and quick manner

JoeRyder.com

Feb 23 2010 19:13

I knew this but I forgot. Great that you came up in the top of the search for this question. You’d think that they would add this little trick to the codex, but oooooh noooo.

Dimitry

Mar 03 2010 01:43

Thank you!!!!!!!!!! You halped me so much with this information!

Beck

Mar 17 2010 23:08

Thank’s a lot – just what I needed!

Ben

Mar 20 2010 16:46

Thanks, this valuable piece of info has saved me hours of time.

Vegan

Apr 10 2010 12:44

Thank you so much, I almost beat my brains out with my keyboard trying to find the category id.

Chris

Apr 11 2010 15:19

Thank you, seriously!!

resepmasakanku

Apr 14 2010 06:35

Thanks jean. That’s really simple trick that almost i miss

Samantha

Apr 15 2010 10:55

Hey It’s a cool trick to find wordpress category ID. Thanks

Mathuieu

Apr 20 2010 01:06

THANKS a LOT ! i was looking for that so long ago !

Christian Louboutin

Apr 22 2010 16:52

Thanks,That’s exactly what I find.

Apr 23 2010 21:01

I am glad this made it easy for so many.

jordan

Apr 24 2010 02:53

Thanks,i finally find out.

Den

Apr 24 2010 06:22

THANKS! I knew someone smarter than me would have come up with the answer!

Anonymous

Apr 28 2010 20:59

Themes should be designed to use the is_category() function and accept the form input as an array of category id, slug, or category name.

But still, simple is good too.

21st Century Real Estate

May 01 2010 22:39

WOW!!! i have to hand it to you, you just saved a headache!!! Thanks!

Ryan

May 06 2010 17:08

Thanks for that. So simple, yet so very helpful.

Ryan

May 19 2010 09:25

Simple solutions are always the best, Brilliant.

sapphire

May 27 2010 13:37

Dude, that rocked! Just spent 20 minutes being an idiot looking for the ID. Didn’t think of looking in the URL.

merci bien!

Warren Laidler

Jun 15 2010 19:33

Perfect little tip. It was exactly what I needed to filter out my guest posts from my blogs homepage using query_posts();

Thanks.

Romul

Jun 15 2010 20:15

So simple

Charlie

Jun 17 2010 22:40

Thanks for this very useful and simple tip. I was going crazy changing my permalinks settings back and forth to see IDs in the URL.

Also works for tags and pages.

Also, someone earlier said it doesn’t work in Safari. If it didn’t, it does now.

nomi

Jun 21 2010 00:54

Thanks Friend, it was really helpful for me , 5 Star***** Goes to you

Bjorn

Jul 04 2010 00:03

This did not work for me in Chrome, the status bar did not show enough of the URL to include the ID. For everyone else who have thsi problem this is what you do:

Right click the ‘edit’ link and choose the ‘copy link adress’ option. Then paste inot anything that can handle text, like Word. There is the entire URL, ending with the ID number.

Jane

Jul 09 2010 15:54

So simple, and yet I spent ages looking for it! Thanks!

Mani Viswanathan

Jul 10 2010 07:11

Was helpful..thanks!

Thankfully Thrifty

Jul 10 2010 15:38

Wow! SO easy! THANK YOU for that!!!

Anton

Aug 01 2010 18:20

Thanks for this small tip, actually this small tip made a huge difference to me setting up a theme to work. Onething some people forget is that not everyone knows where to find things.

Keep up the good work