Taxonomy and Term Queries

When dealing with taxonomies ( including post categories and tags ), it’s safer to rely on the generic APIs rather than the legacy helper APIs. These include:

• get_taxonomies
• get_terms
• get_term_by
• get_taxonomy
• wp_get_object_terms
• wp_set_object_terms

It’s easier to learn one set of APIs, and think of categories and tags as just another taxonomy, rather than mixing and matching older functions such as get_category etc.