Display Primary Category link

Hello @makeupedia,

Thank you for contacting support.

This question is not related to Rank Math but rather the core WordPress functionality.

Having said that, it seems that you are getting the category link saved in the variable $category_link, so you need to echo that variable on the page to get the link of the category.

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Thank you @rankmathteam !

I changed it, but it only echoes the full URL and not a link.

Do you have a better solution to display the rank math primary category?

Thank you!
/Caroline

<?php $category = get_the_category(); $category_link[0]->cat_name; $category_link = get_category_link( $category[0] ); ?>
<?php echo '<a href="'.esc_url( $category_link ).'" title="'.esc_attr($category).'">'.$category.'</a>';  ?></span

So I tweaked the code, but now it says ARRAY.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by caroline.

Hello @makeupedia,

To output this as a link with the category name, you need to add the HTML markup as well as the data from the variables.

You can try something similar to this:

echo '<a href="' . $category_link . '">';
echo $category[0]->cat_name;;
echo '</a>';

Please note that you might need to perform additional changes to this code depending on how you need the anchor tag to appear on the page.

Hello @makeupedia,

Also, you have called the $category_link variable to get the category name. Please try this filter:

<?php
$categories = get_categories();
$category_link = get_category_link($categories[0]->cat_ID);
echo '<a href="'.esc_url( $category_link ).'" title="'.esc_attr($categories[0]->name).'">'.$categories[0]->name.'</a>';?>

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.

Thank you so much @rankmathteam
I didn’t manage to get it worked with the filter you provided though!
This is working for me:

<?php $category = get_the_category(); $category_link[0]->cat_name; $category_link = get_category_link( $category[0] ); ?>
<?php echo '<a class="primary-cat" href="' . $category_link . '">';
echo $category[0]->cat_name;
echo '</a>';?>

Hello @makeupedia,

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