How to access the names of the category name in Wordpress?

Question

I'm trying to get the category name via the_slug() but I can't get it displayed via several methods. Does anyone know what's the right term?

Answer 1

So you have the slug but want to get the name?

$_cat = get_category_by_slug('category-slug'); // Returns Category Object
$_category_name = $_cat->name;

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