Where does the term slug come from?

Where does the term slug come from?

The term slug derives from the days of hot-metal printing, when printers set type by hand in a small form called a stick. Later huge Linotype machines turned molten lead into casts of letters, lines, sentences and paragraphs. A line of lead in both eras was known as a slug.

What is a slug in TV?

Television production: blank footage inserted into a film or videotape to represent a program or portion thereof that is still to come. The slug will be the exact length of the forthcoming piece so that the running time of the footage will be the same as that of the finished product.

How to get a taxonomy from a slug in WordPress?

As follows, the concept gets an array of $taxonomies, loops through the array, and IF get_term_by () returns a match, it then immediately breaks out of the foreach loop. Note: I tried searching for a method to get the associated taxonomy ( ID or Slug ) from Term Slug, but unfortunately I am unable to find anything available in WordPress.

Is the slug the same as the taxonomy?

The slug is not the same as the name of the taxonomy. Your example only works because they happen to be equal in this particular case. get_taxonomy takes a taxonomy name, not a slug. – Hjalmar May 15 ’15 at 11:26 @Hjalmar I think the original poster was referring to taxonomy->name as the slug, and taxonomy->label as the name.

How to get term slug of current post?

Your code works on a page where a term is queried (a taxonomy term archive), not a single post. For a single post, you need to fetch the terms belonging to that post. Below code works well if have multiple terms to show.:- You don’t need a for loop.

How to show the current taxonomy url in WordPress?

This article says that this would do the job: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-show-the-current-taxonomy-title-url-and-more-in-wordpress/ What am I doing wrong? Your code works on a page where a term is queried (a taxonomy term archive), not a single post. For a single post, you need to fetch the terms belonging to that post.