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Display only first category of custom taxonomy

Hi All,

I've created a custom taxonomy (categories) to organise my custom post type (news). In my theme, I'd like to display what category a post belongs to.

Simple enough using 
get_the_term_list
I know, but my problem is that some posts are assigned to multiple categories and I only want to show one of them. Just the first category it was assigned to is fine.

I used to do this like so using the built-in category system but I can't figure out how to do it with my custom taxonomy.
<?php $category = get_the_category(); echo $category[0]->cat_name; ?>


Any ideas? Thanks.

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oh_hello | 02/21/11 at 1:08pm Edit


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    Last edited:
    02/21/11
    1:46pm
    John Cotton says:

    You could try


    
$categories= wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'categories');
    
echo $categories[0]->name;

    Previous versions of this answer: 02/21/11 at 1:24pm

    • 02/21/11 1:46pm

      oh_hello says:

      That appears to do the trick. Thanks.

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