Retrieves a category object by category slug.

Parameters

$slugstringrequired

The category slug.

Return

More Information

Same is achieved by:
get_term_by('slug', $slug, 'category');

Source

function get_category_by_slug( $slug ) {
	$category = get_term_by( 'slug', $slug, 'category' );

	if ( $category ) {
		_make_cat_compat( $category );
	}

	return $category;
}

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