show correct category name and fix post title permalink wordpress

Question

I use this code to show different posts in different divs.

I have 2 problems:

I can't show the correct category name to current post.
- The same category name is applied to 2 post when I use:
```
get_category_link($recent['ID'])
```

Clicking on the post title redirect me to home page instead post's page!

    <div class="modulex">

        <?php

        $args = array('numberposts' => '1', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'offset' => '2');

        $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts($args);



        foreach ($recent_posts as $recent) {?>



           <div><?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($recent['ID'],'small', array('class'=>'img-fluid')); ?></div>

            <div class="spanlike"><h6><a href="<?php get_permalink($recent["ID"]) ?>"><?php echo $recent["post_title"] ?></a></h6></div>



        <?php } ?>

    </div><?php

    wp_reset_query();

    ?>

Answer 1

The problem with this is that get_category_link requires a category ID as argument, not post ID. To get around this, you'll have to perform several steps:
- retrieve a list of categories for your post
- decide which category to use from the list (assuming you only have one category per post, just use the first/only one)
- get the link for this category
I would suggest using a custom function for this. Example below.

Here I think your problem is that get_permalink returns rather than echos. You could use the permalink instead:

<div class="spanlike"><h6><a href="<?php the_permalink($recent["ID"]) ?>"><?php echo $recent["post_title"] ?></a></h6></div>

Example function for retrieving category link from post ID:

function get_cat_link_from_postID($postID) {
  $categories = get_the_category($postID);
  $catID = $categories[0]->term_id;
  return get_category_link($catID);
}

show correct category name and fix post title permalink wordpress

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