get_category_link( int|object $category ): string

Parameters

$categoryint|object

Category ID or object.

Return

string

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

Uses · 2

• get_term_link()Generates a permalink for a taxonomy term archive.
• is_wp_error()Checks whether the given variable is a WordPress Error.

Used by · 3

• get_tag_link()Retrieves the link to the tag.
• get_the_category_list()Retrieves category list for a post in either HTML list or custom format.
• wp_xmlrpc_server::mw_getCategories()Retrieves the list of categories on a given blog.

Source

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20function get_category_link( $category ) {21	if ( ! is_object( $category ) ) {22		$category = (int) $category;23	}24 25	$category = get_term_link( $category );26 27	if ( is_wp_error( $category ) ) {28		return '';29	}30 31	return $category;32}

History

Introduced in 1.0.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

1. 6.7.7
2. 6.8.8
3. 6.9.7
4. 7.0.4
5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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