get_category_link( int|object $category )

Retrieve category link URL.


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Parameters Parameters

$category

(int|object) (Required) Category ID or object.


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Return Return

(string) Link on success, empty string if category does not exist.


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Source Source

File: wp-includes/category-template.php

function get_category_link( $category ) {
	if ( ! is_object( $category ) ) {
		$category = (int) $category;
	}

	$category = get_term_link( $category );

	if ( is_wp_error( $category ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	return $category;
}

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Version Description
1.0.0 Introduced.


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User Contributed Notes User Contributed Notes

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    Contributed by Codex

    Category Link

    <?php
        // Get the ID of a given category
        $category_id = get_cat_ID( 'Category Name' );
    
        // Get the URL of this category
        $category_link = get_category_link( $category_id );
    ?>
    
    <!-- Print a link to this category -->
    <a href="<?php echo esc_url( $category_link ); ?>" title="Category Name">Category Name</a>
    
    
  2. Skip to note 2 content
    Contributed by rdmi

    Worth remembering that a category_id is a term_id and not a term_taxonomy_id

    (And, yes, you can figure that out from reading the code. But these sometimes will be the same, fooling some people into thinking that the term_taxonomy_id was right. But sooner or later you will probably get examples where they are different, and then things do not work right.)

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