Function Reference/get taxonomies

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1 Description
2 Usage
3 Parameters
4 Return Value
5 Examples
6 Source File
7 Change Log
8 Related

Description

Get a list of registered taxonomy objects.

Usage

<?php get_taxonomies( $args, $output, $operator ) ?>

Parameters

$args

(array) (optional) An array of key -> value arguments to match against the taxonomies. Only taxonomies having attributes that match all arguments are returned.

Default: None

name
object_type (array)
label
singular_label
show_ui
show_tagcloud
show_in_rest
public
update_count_callback
rewrite
query_var
manage_cap
edit_cap
delete_cap
assign_cap
_builtin

$output

(string) (optional) The type of output to return, either taxonomy 'names' or 'objects'.

Default: 'names'

$operator

(string) (optional) Operator (and/or) to use with multiple $args.

Default: and

Return Value

array: A list of taxonomy names or objects. If returning names, you will get an array of the taxonomy names such as

Array ( [special_taxonomy] => special_taxonomy [custom_taxonomy] => custom_taxonomy )

If returning objects, you will get an array of objects such as:

Array ( [special_taxonomy] => stdClass Object  [custom_taxonomy] => stdClass Object  )

wherein each object will contain the following fields:

stdClass Object ( 
[hierarchical] => 
[update_count_callback] =>  
[rewrite] => 
[query_var] => 
[public] => 
[show_ui] => 
[show_tagcloud] => 
[_builtin] => 
[labels] => stdClass Object ( 
	[name] =>  
	[singular_name] =>
	[search_items] => 
	[popular_items] => 
	[all_items] => 
	[parent_item] => 
	[parent_item_colon] =>  
	[edit_item] => 
	[view_item] =>  
	[update_item] => 
	[add_new_item] => 
	[new_item_name] => 
	[separate_items_with_commas] => 
	[add_or_remove_items] => 
	[choose_from_most_used] => 
	[menu_name] =>  
	[name_admin_bar] =>  ) 
[show_in_nav_menus] => 
[cap] => stdClass Object ( 
	[manage_terms] =>  
	[edit_terms] =>  
	[delete_terms] =>  
	[assign_terms] =>  ) 
[name] =>  
[object_type] => Array () 
[label]  )

Examples

Default Usage

The call to get_taxonomies returns the registered taxonomies.

<?php $taxonomies = get_taxonomies(); ?>

Output a list all registered taxonomies

<?php

$taxonomies = get_taxonomies(); 
foreach ( $taxonomies as $taxonomy ) {
    echo '<p>' . $taxonomy . '</p>';
}

?>

Output a list of all public custom taxonomies

This return all custom (not builtin) taxonomies.

<?php 
$args = array(
  'public'   => true,
  '_builtin' => false
  
); 
$output = 'names'; // or objects
$operator = 'and'; // 'and' or 'or'
$taxonomies = get_taxonomies( $args, $output, $operator ); 
if ( $taxonomies ) {
  foreach ( $taxonomies  as $taxonomy ) {
    echo '<p>' . $taxonomy . '</p>';
  }
}
?>

Output a named taxonomy

This example uses the 'object' output to retrieve and display the taxonomy called 'genre':

<?php 
$args=array(
  'name' => 'genre'
);
$output = 'objects'; // or names
$taxonomies=get_taxonomies($args,$output); 
if  ($taxonomies) {
  foreach ($taxonomies  as $taxonomy ) {
    echo '<p>' . $taxonomy->name . '</p>';
  }
}  
?>

Source File

get_taxonomies() is located in wp-includes/taxonomy.php.

Change Log

Since: 3.0.0

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