How to Find WordPress Category ID

Written by Christian on June 27, 2010 in How To, Wordpress - No comments

Some themes for wordpress allow for a great deal of changes and flexibility in terms of the overall look and feel of your site. If you may have noticed alot of themes ask for a "Category ID".

There are  Category Names and Category Slugs (The “slug” is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens.) 

Great but I still haven't answered your question yet right ?  Well to find out what category id is, do the following :

1. Login to your wordpress panel (if you aren't already)
2. Click on post , and then click on category
3. Look at the category you need the id number for and click edit.

Once you're logged in your WordPress dashboard, go to Manage and then in Categories.
Simply put your mouse cursor on the "edit" link related to the category you want to know the ID and look on your browser's status bar: As you can see on the screenshot below, is is the category id number ( of course it will vary from page to page).