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djmosc on 10/26/11


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Get the top level category from any category in Wordpress

 / Published in: PHP
 

Just insert any category id into the argument and it will return the top level category object.

e.g: printr( gettoplevelcategory('INSERT CATEGORY ID HERE') );

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  1. if ( ! function_exists( 'get_top_level_category' )) {
  2. 	function get_top_level_category($id){
  3. 		$category = get_category($id);
  4. 		$parent_category = NULL;
  5. 		if($category->category_parent != 0){
  6. 			$parent_category = get_top_level_category($category->category_parent );
  7. 		} else {
  8. 			$parent_category = get_category($category->cat_ID);
  9. 		}
  10. 		return $parent_category;
  11. 	}
  12. }

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