Show post category in post excerpt?

[Fabio]

Hi there,
I was wondering what I should do to display post category in excerpt like they do here:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/
as you can see the first word of each post is the category in a blue rectangle: inspiration, tools, photoshop and other.

How do you achieve that?
Thanks

Fabio

[cruisegle]

On my new blog I have removed post and page titles from the loop as I wanted them in the right header.

I am then using the PHP Code Widget plugin and adding the following code into the widget which is placed in the right header widget area.

<?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
<?php if (is_front_page()) { ?>
<h1>Most of Marketing is Totally Bollocks;<br> I’m an SEO Consultant...</h1>
<?php } elseif (is_page()) { ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } elseif (is_tag()) { ?>
Posts Tagged as <h1><?php single_tag_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
<h1>Talking Bollocks on <?php the_time('jS F Y'); ?></h1>
<?php } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
Posts marked as <h1><?php single_cat_title() ?></h1>
<?php } elseif (is_single()) { ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } ?>

So I guess you could use <?php single_cat_title() ?> somehow within an archive template.

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[Fabio]

Thanks mate,
for some reason I didn't get an email notification with your reply. I just logged in now and I saw it.
You got a nice blog as well, must be from the UK... they always say bollocks over here...

Anyways, I appreciate your suggestion but honestly I don't know how to act upon it, so it doesn't matter, I guess I'll need to hire somebody.

Thanks
Fabio

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