How To Get The Name Of A Category In A Category Page

Building a category page is very easy. All what you have to do is to create a page and name it “category”. When you access a category page URL, all posts data within that particular will be available without the need of using additional binders.  If you wish to know what is the name of the currently render category page, all what yo need to do is to type this code:

 

<li><strong>{{$wp_query.found_posts}}</strong> results found in the "<strong>{{$queried_object.cat_name}}</strong>" category.</li>

 

The $queried_object contains the current category name, slug, cat_ID, and more.

 

array(16) {
    ["term_id"]=>
    &int(87)
    ["name"]=>
    &string(8) "Business"
    ["slug"]=>
    &string(8) "business"
    ["term_group"]=>
    int(0)
    ["term_taxonomy_id"]=>
    int(91)
    ["taxonomy"]=>
    string(8) "category"
    ["description"]=>
    &string(0) ""
    ["parent"]=>
    &int(86)
    ["count"]=>
    &int(37)
    ["filter"]=>
    string(3) "raw"
    ["cat_ID"]=>
    &int(87)
    ["category_count"]=>
    &int(37)
    ["category_description"]=>
    &string(0) ""
    ["cat_name"]=>
    &string(8) "Business"
    ["category_nicename"]=>
    &string(8) "business"
    ["category_parent"]=>
    &int(86)
}