How to get the cat id of a custom post type?

It works on post (single), because posts have category in contrast to pages.

Sorry, I said custom post type page but I just mean custom post type.

It works on normal posts but on a custom post type it doesn’t bring back anything. I’m wondering if the query takes custom post types into consideration?

Thanks agaom

I’m basically on a custom post type post and I need to and I need to find out the category id of it :-S

How are you assigning categories to custom post types? I set up custom posts, but was never able to assign categories, so I finally set up custom heirarchical taxonomies. Were you able to use standard categories? Did I do something wrong setting up my post type…cuz categories would have been waaaay easier. But if you are using custom taxonomies, I can help….

We managed to use normal categories so we have our old posts and new post types in the same category, lots of fun lol.

Managed to solve this problem with this;

function getCurrentCatID(){
global $wp_query;
global $post;
$cats = get_the_category();
$cat_ID = $cats[0]->cat_ID;
return $cat_ID;
}