Question

I am new to wordpress , I need to know how to find the category id instead of category name ?
in the wordpress .

Any one Much appreciated

Reg,
vicky

Answer 1

<?php
     $category_id = get_cat_ID('Category Name');
     $q = 'cat=' . $category_id;
     query_posts($q);
     if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

     the_content();

     endwhile; endif;
?>

Taken from the WordPress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_cat_ID