Simple question. I'm creating a wordpress theme and I want to display the post category name inside a <h1> tag.
If I used the_category(""); wordpress outputs a linkable category name.
Since I'm already on that categories page, I don't want the category name to be linkable, instead, I only want it displayed as plain text.
Any help would be appreciated
use <?php single_cat_title( ); ?>
you can see doc here http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/single_cat_title
get_the_category() will get you all the post's categories:
Returns an array of objects, one object for each category assigned to the post. This tag may be used outside The Loop by passing a post id as the parameter.
as a general rule in the Wordpress Codex, get_xyz() will return the value, where xyz() will output it.
