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Description

This Conditional Tag checks if the taxonomy name exists by passing a taxonomy name as an argument to it. This is a boolean function uses a global $wp_taxonomies variable for checking if taxonomy name existence, meaning it returns either TRUE if the taxonomy name exist or FALSE if it doesn't exist.

Usage

<?php is_taxonomy($taxonomy); ?>

Parameters

$taxonomy
(string) (required) The name of the taxonomy
Default: None

Return Values

(boolean) 
True on success, false on failure.

Examples

$taxonomy_exist = is_taxonomy('category');
//returns true

$taxonomy_exist = is_taxonomy('post_tag');
//returns true

$taxonomy_exist = is_taxonomy('link_category');
//returns true

$taxonomy_exist = is_taxonomy('my_taxonomy');
//returns false if global $wp_taxonomies['my_taxonomy'] is not set

Notes

Change Log

Since: 2.3.0

Source File

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

Related

is_home(), is_front_page(), is_search(), is_404(), is_singular(), is_page(), is_attachment(), is_local_attachment(), is_single(), is_sticky(), is_archive(), is_category(), is_tag(), is_author(), is_date(), is_year(), is_month(), is_day(), is_time(), is_admin(), is_preview(), is_paged(), is_page_template(), is plugin active(), is_plugin_page(), is_new_day(), is_feed(), is_trackback(), is_comments_popup(), comments_open(), pings_open(), is_taxonomy(), is_taxonomy_hierarchical(), is_term(), is_user_logged_in(), is_blog_installed(), is_active_sidebar(), is_dynamic_sidebar(), is_active_widget(), in_the_loop(), in_category(), has_tag(), has_excerpt()

See also index of Function Reference and index of Template Tags.
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