Get the parent category of post in wordpress
get current post id
$id = get_the_ID();
echo $id;
get current post parent category slug
$category = get_the_category();
$category_parent_id = $category[0]->category_parent;
if ( $category_parent_id != 0 ) {
$category_parent = get_term( $category_parent_id, ‘category’ );
$cat_parent_slug = $category_parent->slug;
} else {
$cat_parent _slug = $category[0]->slug;
}
