How To Add the Post Category to the body_class Function for Single Posts

Are you looking for a way to add the post category to the body element classes for single posts? This little snippet will take all the categories assigned to a post and add each of them as a body class with the pattern sgl-cat-{category-name}.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

	add_filter('body_class','add_category_to_single');
	function add_category_to_single($classes, $class) {
		if (is_single() ) {
			global $post;
			foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) {
				$classes[] = 'sgl-cat-'.$category->category_nicename;
			}
		}
		return $classes;
	}

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