Check if the current page is a category page in Wordpress?

Question

I need to insert some condition if the current page is a category page or not.

Answer 1

I found a way to do this by checking if $cat_idthis page is available or not, as follows.

$cat_id = get_query_var('cat');

Now we can check if $ cat_id is available, this is the category page, otherwise it is not.

Answer 2

you can use this to get a category

is_category();
is_category( '1' ); // where 1 is category id
is_category( 'test' ); // where test is category name
is_category( 'test-ing' ); // where test-ing is category slug

Answer 3

is_category();

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refrence: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_category

Answer 4

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if(!empty($cat)){ //do something just on a category archive page }