Changeset 42367

Timestamp:

12/04/2017 09:02:10 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

boonebgorges

Message:

get_the_category_by_ID() should be taxonomy-agnostic.

Prior to 4.9, this function was accidentally taxonomy-agnostic in most cases.
The fix in [40979] caused a regression in this function. For backward
compatibility, we make it explicit that the query is by ID only.

See #42771.

Location:

trunk

Files:

• src/wp-includes/category-template.php (modified) (1 diff)
• tests/phpunit/tests/category/getTheCategoryById.php (added)

trunk/src/wp-includes/category-template.php

@@ -108 +108 @@
 function get_the_category_by_ID( $cat_ID ) {
     $cat_ID   = (int) $cat_ID;
-    $category = get_term( $cat_ID, 'category' );
+    $category = get_term( $cat_ID );
 
     if ( is_wp_error( $category ) ) {