{"id":1216781,"date":"2017-01-11T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T18:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/displaying-the-category-name-2\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T18:46:17","slug":"displaying-the-category-name-2","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/displaying-the-category-name-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaying the Category name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi \u2013 I am creating a custom theme and just need to be able to list the category name(s) \u2013 Something similar to<\/p>\n<p><code>get_the_category()<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I did find that<\/p>\n<p><code>tribe_get_event_taxonomy()<\/code><\/p>\n<p>does output the category names, but it does it as an html string. What I\u2019m looking for is either an array of categories, or just the name of the first category in the array (no HTML).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1216781","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Displaying the Category name? -<\/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\/displaying-the-category-name-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Displaying the Category name? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi \u2013 I am creating a custom theme and just need to be able to list the category name(s) \u2013 Something similar to get_the_category() I did find that tribe_get_event_taxonomy() does output the category names, but it does it as an html string. 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