deprecate category_description() in favor of get_category_description()

Nice idea. Not for 2.8

if you liked this change, check #9882 too.

patch needs a slight update to change the versions, else probably good to go

How about tag_description(), which was introduced in 2.8?

ver.2

sorry, here is the latest

category_description() & tag_description()

• category_description() deprecate in favor of get_category_description()
• tag_description() deprecate in favor of get_tag_description()

The old function are still in use in deprecated.php file.

This is a good idea, though I'm not convinced this is worth it. If we're going to do this, we'll need to rename term_description() as well.

nacin, we can rename term_description() as well.

Replying to ramiy:

nacin, we can rename term_description() as well.

I wasn't convinced it was worth it because that's three functions to rename, simply for get_* consistency. Surely we have other functions that don't start with "get_", especially those that also don't start with "the_", that return a value. I suppose this is considered a template tag, so I understand why we should probably do it here.

category_description() & tag_description() & term_description()