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.