get_cat_ID() returns term_id rather than term_taxonomy_id

[GeorgeStephanis]

get_cat_ID() currently returns the wrong value for a category id. It's giving the term id rather than the term taxonomy id.

As the category ID is the term_taxonomy_id -- I believe that this is just legacy code from before the term_id and term_taxonomy_id were separated.

However, if your site is not running a straight 1:1 ratio for term_id = term_taxonomy_id (as some aren't) it will not give you the correct category id.

Fix:

have it return ->term_taxonomy_id; instead of ->term_id;

-George

[scribu]

Erm, get_the_ID() only returns a post id.

Did you mean get_queried_object_id()?

[GeorgeStephanis]

Gah, I'm an idiot. I meant get_cat_ID(). Editing the ticket now.

[scribu]

All the taxonomy functions work with term_id, rather than term_taxonomy_id, even if it would have been nice if it did.

Unfortunately, we can't go about changing what get_cat_ID() returns, because it would break existing code that correctly expects it to return a term id.