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the_category

Description

Applied to the list of categories (an HTML list with links) created by the get_the_category_list function. Filter function arguments: generated HTML text, list separator being used (empty string means it is a default LI list), parents argument to get_the_category_list.

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WordPress version history for the_category

This database has information for all major versions from WP 1.2.1 through 3.0.

Version File Type
1.2.1 wp-includes/template-functions-category.php View hook in source filter
1.5 wp-includes/template-functions-category.php View hook in source filter
1.5.2 wp-includes/template-functions-category.php View hook in source filter
2.0 wp-includes/template-functions-category.php View hook in source filter
2.0.11 wp-includes/template-functions-category.php View hook in source filter
2.1 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
2.2 wp-admin/admin-functions.php View hook in source filter
2.2 wp-admin/categories.php View hook in source filter
2.2 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
2.3 wp-admin/categories.php View hook in source filter
2.3 wp-admin/includes/template.php View hook in source filter
2.3 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
2.5 wp-admin/categories.php View hook in source filter
2.5 wp-admin/includes/template.php View hook in source filter
2.5 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
2.6 wp-admin/categories.php View hook in source filter
2.6 wp-admin/includes/template.php View hook in source filter
2.6 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
2.7 wp-admin/categories.php View hook in source filter
2.7 wp-admin/includes/template.php View hook in source filter
2.7 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
2.8 wp-admin/categories.php View hook in source filter
2.8 wp-admin/includes/template.php View hook in source filter
2.8 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
2.9 wp-admin/categories.php View hook in source filter
2.9 wp-admin/includes/template.php View hook in source filter
2.9 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter
3.0 wp-admin/edit-tags.php View hook in source filter
3.0 wp-admin/includes/template.php View hook in source filter
3.0 wp-includes/category-template.php View hook in source filter

Related Hooks

We find related hooks using word stems. the_category has 1 significant word stem(s): category. Note that some of the hooks below may not appear in all versions of WP.