Spelling error on category-template.php

[princeahmed]

On wp-includes/category-template.php file there is a spelling error in the documentation of the in_category function.

It is saying array of said instead of array of IDs.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi there, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the ticket.

Just to clarify, the documentation means that the function accepts not only an array of category IDs, but also an array of category names or slugs. I agree this could be described better though :)

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 49669:

Docs: Use more specific type in parameter descriptions for in_category() and is_object_in_term().

This better aligns with is_category() and other conditional tags and their WP_Query counterpart methods.

Follow-up to [47402].

Props princeahmed.
Fixes #51825.

[princeahmed]

Created Patch

On wp-includes/category-template.php file there is a spelling error in the documentation of the in_category function.
It is saying array of said instead of array of IDs.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51825

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[princeahmed]

Should I submit another new ticket by improving the parameter descriptions for in_category() and is_object_in_term()?

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

In 49669:

Docs: Use more specific type in parameter descriptions for in_category() and is_object_in_term().

This better aligns with is_category() and other conditional tags and their WP_Query counterpart methods.

Follow-up to [47402].

Props princeahmed.
Fixes #51825.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to princeahmed:

Should I submit another new ticket by improving the parameter descriptions for in_category() and is_object_in_term()?

Thanks for the patch! Just to clarify, as previously noted in comment:1, the function accepts not only an array of category IDs, but also an array of category names or slugs, so 51825.patch​ is not quite correct.

This is now changed in [49669] to "Category ID, name, slug, or array of such to check against", for consistency with other conditional tags and WP_Query methods, see also [47401] and [47402].

If you have any further ideas on improving the descriptions, please share :)