Get Post Title for Category Name

So the CF7_get_post_var shortcode specifically grabs Post variables. Since Categories aren’t Posts, the shortcode doesn’t apply.

You’d need to create a custom shortcode that returned the current category name to do what you want. If you want to use the same shortcode for both, you’d need to detect the page type and then return the Post title or Category name depending on which page you’re on.

Hope that helps,

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your reply.

Can you give me any guidance on how I would create a custom shortcode that returns the current category name?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Exponential,

There are lots of great guides on writing shortcodes, which I recommend Googling and reading through.

The current category name can be determined with get_the_category()

Here’s a simple example to get the first Category:

function my_category_shortcode(){
  global $post;
  $category = get_the_category( $post->ID );
  return $category[0]->cat_name;
}
add_shortcode( 'my_category' , 'my_category_shortcode' );

Hope that helps,

Chris

Sorry to be a pain and thank you very much for you help!

I have used your simple example within my functions.php file. The contact form is sitting in a widget area attached to the category pages.

I have then set up a seperate CF7 form for category pages and am trying to create a dynamic text field picking up the custom shortcode I created.

This is not working and I think I may have misunderstood some part of doing this:

[dynamictext qual-cat id:qual-cat class:form-control ‘my_category’]

any update on this..? Even i am facing similar issue.. Need to collect the category name.

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