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Function Reference/get term children

Merge all term children into a single array.

This recursive function will merge all of the children of $term into the same array. Only useful for taxonomies which are hierarchical.

Will return an empty array if $term does not exist in $taxonomy.

<?php get_term_children( $term, $taxonomy ) ?>

$term

(string) (required) Name of Term to get children

Default: None

$taxonomy

(string) (required) Taxonomy Name

Default: None

(array|WP_Error): List of Term Objects. WP_Error returned if $taxonomy does not exist

Uses: $wpdb
Uses: _get_term_hierarchy()
Uses: get_term_children Used to get the children of both $taxonomy and the parent $term

Since: 2.3.0

get_term_children() is located in wp-includes/taxonomy.php.