Retrieves term description.

Parameters

$termintoptional

Term ID. Defaults to the current term ID.

$deprecatednulloptional

Deprecated. Not used.

Default:null

Return

More Information

First available with WordPress Version 2.8, this template tag returns the description of a given term. A term ID and taxonomy are as parameters. If no term ID is passed, the description of current queried term (e.g. post category or tag) will be returned.

Output is wrapped in <p> tags.

Source

function term_description( $term = 0, $deprecated = null ) {
	if ( ! $term && ( is_tax() || is_tag() || is_category() ) ) {
		$term = get_queried_object();
		if ( $term ) {
			$term = $term->term_id;
		}
	}

	$description = get_term_field( 'description', $term );

	return is_wp_error( $description ) ? '' : $description;
}

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