Simple get_term_by question

use $term->name for taxonomy classification and $term->taxonomy for taxonomy label

To clarify further:

get_term_by returns an object, object properties/variables are accessed using the object operator ->, so to access the variables of the $term object, as chinmoy has shown above you just need to use the object operator and one of the valid variable names, such as name, slug, term_id or whatever else (depends what you want).

echo $object; // Invalid, echo can only deal with numeric or string values (not arrays or objects)
echo $object->name; // Valid if the object has a variable called name
echo $object->hello; // Valid if the object has a variable called hello

Quick way to see the properties/variables of an object is to print the data to screen, like so..

print '<pre>';
print_r( $your_object_variable );
print '</pre>';

Hope that helps.

Thanks guys! It works great. Now I’ll know. =)

You’re welcome.. ??

Also, if you just need the term_id, you could use $wp_query->get_queried_object_id()

Additionally, the complete list of the available variables of term_object are:

• 'term_id'
• 'name'
• 'description'
• 'slug'
• 'count'
• 'parent'
• 'term_group'
• 'taxonomy'

The is filter but I’m pretty sure it is a function call and is defaulted to empty. You should mess with that.

I didn’t find any documentation on those, and I don’t know where it should go in the codex, so I put it here.