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July 20, 2022

Get the current taxonomy ID in WordPress

Marinus Klasen

Another short snippet-style article for today; How do you get the current term or taxonomy object in WordPress?

Sometimes, when developing plugins or themes, you need to get more details on the current term page the website visitor is looking at. We can load term meta by using get_term_meta functions, but what if we want to get general information about the term?

We can use the get_queried_object function, like below:

$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;

See al the information the object contains by using:

var_dump($queried_object);

And get specific meta values from the term, by using:

$meta_key = get_term_meta($term_id, 'field_key', true);

That’s all!

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Marinus has been working in software/web development for more than a decade. Since 2020 his attention shifted on sharing knowledge and developing products and tools for sharing knowledge.

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