WordPress: get_queried_object() returns for different objects #snippet #WordPress

get_queried_object.php

/**
* I wanted to know what get_queried_object() returns for different things in WordPress.
*
*/
// I use this to grab the array returned
// depending on what is being queried, it will return a different array of values
<?php 
  $object = get_queried_object();
  var_dump($object);
?>

// taxonomy.php -> taxonomy term template
 
/* 
object(stdClass)#350 (9) { ["term_id"]=> string(1) "3" ["name"]=> string(13) "Contract Work" ["slug"]=> string(13) "contract-work" ["term_group"]=> string(1) "0" ["term_taxonomy_id"]=> string(1) "3" ["taxonomy"]=> string(11) "project_tag" ["description"]=> string(0) "" ["parent"]=> string(1) "0" ["count"]=> string(1) "2" }

*/