Get categories for current page/entry

Question

For templating, I need to be able to see what the categories of the current entry is. I'm aware of how to get all categories in craft via

{% set categories = craft.categories %}

however I haven't come across a way to simple get the categories that are set for the entry. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Answer 1

You can access the categories through the category field itself.

{% for category in entry.categoryFieldHandle %}
    {{ category.title }}
{% endfor %}

Answer 2

If might be your wording but I can see two potential answers here.

You either want to list categories set through a category field on the entry, in that case the code Douglas has supplied will work perfectly.

The other answer I can see is you have multiple categories that are assigned to an entry, and you want to list those categories out. If so, this will help:

{# Fetch all of the categories related to this entry #}
{% set categories = craft.categories.relatedTo(entry) %}

{# Output them #}
{% for category in categories %}
    <a href="{{ category.url }}">{{ category.title }}</a>
{% endfor %}

Hopefully myself and Douglas have covered both bases for you here.

Answer 3

Your entry is tied to the category via the field you have made. You can access the field like every other field.

entry.categoryFieldName.one()

Will get the first one