Get category title by slug

Question

I'm setting my categories by matching the third segment to a category slug. How do I get the category title?

{% set catSlug = craft.request.getSegment(3) %}
{% set category = craft.categories.slug(catSlug) %}

{{ category.slug }} returns the slug, but {{ category.title }} returns nothing.

Answer 1

You need to add .first() when setting the category. As far as I can tell, if you don't have .first() only {{ category.slug }} will work.

First get the slug:

{% set catSlug = craft.request.getSegment(3) %}

This will give you the CategoryModel object for catSlug:

{% set category = craft.categories.slug(catSlug).first() %}

You can now access whatever you want from the category, like the title:

{{ category.title }}