Title: get_term
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# apply_filters( ‘get_term’, WP_Term $_term, string $taxonomy )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters a taxonomy term object.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The [‘get_$taxonomy’](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_taxonomy/)
hook is also available for targeting a specific taxonomy.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$_term`[WP_Term](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_term/)

Term object.

`$taxonomy`string

The taxonomy slug.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $_term = apply_filters( 'get_term', $_term, $taxonomy );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/taxonomy.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/taxonomy.php#L1021)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/taxonomy.php#L1021-L1021)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [get_term()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_term/)`wp-includes/taxonomy.php` |

Gets all term data from database by term ID.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_term/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.4.0/) | `$_term` is now a `WP_Term` object. | 
| [2.3.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.3.0/) | Introduced. |

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