Get current category ID of the active page

Question

Looking to pull the category ID of a specific page in WordPress that is listing all posts using that specific category. Tried the below but not working. I am able to get the category name using single_term_title.

$category = single_term_title("", false); $catid = get_cat_ID( $category ); 

$category is displaying "Entertainment" for example. But I also need the ID of "Entertainment". How would I go about this?

Answer 1

If it is a category page,you can get id of current category by:

$category = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) ); $cat_id = $category->cat_ID; 

If you want to get category id of any particular category on any page, try using :

$category_id = get_cat_ID('Category Name');