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When viewing an event category page (i.e. mydomain.com\/events\/category\/category-name), I am trying to detect the event category to which the events on the page belong. I have code in place that detects when a page is an event category page, and it works well. So I am able to detect that I’m on a category page, but I cannot figure out how to retrieve the event category itself. How would I do this? I have spent a lot of time searching and trying different things, but I can’t seem to successfully retrieve the category.<\/p>\n

The reason I am looking to do this is because I want to display a different logo image on the page depending on what the category is.<\/p>\n

I did have the thought that I could try parsing the page’s URL for the category slug, but I’d prefer a less ugly – and more robust – method if possible.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1078248","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nGet event category when viewing category page -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/get-event-category-when-viewing-category-page\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Get event category when viewing category page -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When viewing an event category page (i.e. mydomain.com\/events\/category\/category-name), I am trying to detect the event category to which the events on the page belong. I have code in place that detects when a page is an event category page, and it works well. 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