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add code to display link in get category wordpress

I added this code to display the category list in the wordpress post, it only displays text, no link, how to display the category link.

<?php
$args = array(
    'type'      => 'post',
    'number'    => 1,
    'parent'    => 
);
$categories = get_categories( $args );
foreach ( $categories as $category ) { ?>
      <?php echo $category->name ; ?>
<?php } ?>

I added this code to display the category list in the wordpress post, it only displays text, no link, how to display the category link.

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  1. 0

    Oh my… Use get_category_link():

    <?php
  $args = array(
    'type'   => 'post',
    'number' => 1,
    'parent' => 0,
  );
  $categories = get_categories( $args );
  foreach ( $categories as $category ) :
?>
<a href="<?php echo get_category_link( ( int ) $category->term_id ); ?>">
  <?php echo $category->name; ?>
</a>
<?php endforeach; ?>
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  2. 0

    To augment what you’re doing you would simply get the category link before you echo the name and then close the link after the name, like this:

    <?php
$args = array(
    'type'      => 'post',
    'number'    => 1,
    'parent'    => 
);
$categories = get_categories( $args );
foreach ( $categories as $category ) { 
      echo '<a href="' . esc_url( get_category_link( $category->term_id ) ) . '">';
          echo $category->name;
      echo '</a>';
} ?>

    You also don’t need to keep opening and closing your PHP if you’re just going to keep running new lines of PHP (ie. <?php ?>)

    I got the basic gist of my answer from:
    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_categories/

    The documentation example is as follows:

    <?php
$categories = get_categories( array(
    'orderby' => 'name',
    'order'   => 'ASC'
) );

foreach( $categories as $category ) {
    $category_link = sprintf( 
        '<a href="%1$s" alt="%2$s">%3$s</a>',
        esc_url( get_category_link( $category->term_id ) ),
        esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts in %s', 'textdomain' ), $category->name ) ),
        esc_html( $category->name )
    );
    
    echo '<p>' . sprintf( esc_html__( 'Category: %s', 'textdomain' ), $category_link ) . '</p> ';
    echo '<p>' . sprintf( esc_html__( 'Description: %s', 'textdomain' ), $category->description ) . '</p>';
    echo '<p>' . sprintf( esc_html__( 'Post Count: %s', 'textdomain' ), $category->count ) . '</p>';
}

    The output is formatted different but it’s the same concept.

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