Displaying post categories

  • For each posting in my blog, I want to display a list of its categories, including links to those categories. In other words, something like this:
    My Post Title. Posted in: Category 1, category 2, category 3

    My problem is that I only want to show the first 5 categories each post is posted in (because I don’t want the list to get super long).

    Is there a way to do that?

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  • The category list is usually generated by the statement:

    <?php the_category(', '); ?>

    Replace that statement with this:

    <?php
$count = 0;
$limit = 5;
$sep = '';
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
   if (++%count > $limit) break;
   $cat_name = $category->cat_name;
   $cat_link = get_category_link( $category->cat_ID );
   echo "<a href='$cat_link' title='$cat_name'>$sep$cat_name</a>";
   $sep = ', ';
}
?>
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