To augment what you're doing you would simply get the category link before you echo the name and then close the link after the name, like this: <?php $args = array( 'type' => 'post', 'number' => 1, 'parent' => ); $categories = get_categories( $args ); foreach ( $categories as $category ) { echo '<a href="' . esc_url( get_category_link( $category->term_id ) ) . '">'; echo $category->name; echo '</a>'; } ?> You also don't need to keep opening and closing your PHP if you're just going to keep running new lines of PHP (ie. <?php ?>) I got the basic gist of my answer from: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_categories/ The documentation example is as follows: <?php $categories = get_categories( array( 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC' ) ); foreach( $categories as $category ) { $category_link = sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" alt="%2$s">%3$s</a>', esc_url( get_category_link( $category->term_id ) ), esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts in %s', 'textdomain' ), $category->name ) ), esc_html( $category->name ) ); echo '<p>' . sprintf( esc_html__( 'Category: %s', 'textdomain' ), $category_link ) . '</p> '; echo '<p>' . sprintf( esc_html__( 'Description: %s', 'textdomain' ), $category->description ) . '</p>'; echo '<p>' . sprintf( esc_html__( 'Post Count: %s', 'textdomain' ), $category->count ) . '</p>'; } The output is formatted different but it's the same concept.

Oh my... Use get_category_link(): <?php $args = array( 'type' => 'post', 'number' => 1, 'parent' => 0, ); $categories = get_categories( $args ); foreach ( $categories as $category ) : ?> <a href="<?php echo get_category_link( ( int ) $category->term_id ); ?>"> <?php echo $category->name; ?> </a> <?php endforeach; ?>