Retrieves the taxonomy object of $taxonomy.

Description

The get_taxonomy function will first check that the parameter string given is a taxonomy object and if it is, it will return it.

Parameters

$taxonomystringrequired

Name of taxonomy object to return.

Return

More Information

Note that it does NOT return the list of terms associated with the taxonomy. To do this, you should use get_term() to return an object or wp_list_categories() to return an HTML list of terms

Source

function get_taxonomy( $taxonomy ) {
	global $wp_taxonomies;

	if ( ! taxonomy_exists( $taxonomy ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	return $wp_taxonomies[ $taxonomy ];
}

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