• Wordpress

    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;
    }