/**
* Retrieves category description.
*
* @since 1.0.0
*
* @param int $category Optional. Category ID. Defaults to the current category ID.
* @return string Category description, if available.
*/
function category_description( $category = 0 ) {
return term_description( $category );
}
/**
* Displays or retrieves the HTML dropdown list of categories.
*
* The 'hierarchical' argument, which is disabled by default, will override the
* depth argument, unless it is true. When the argument is false, it will
* display all of the categories. When it is enabled it will use the value in
* the 'depth' argument.
*
* @since 2.1.0
* @since 4.2.0 Introduced the `value_field` argument.
* @since 4.6.0 Introduced the `required` argument.
* @since 6.1.0 Introduced the `aria_describedby` argument.
*
* @param array|string $args {
* Optional. Array or string of arguments to generate a categories drop-down element. See WP_Term_Query::__construct()
* for information on additional accepted arguments.
*
* @type string $show_option_all Text to display for showing all categories. Default empty.
* @type string $show_option_none Text to display for showing no categories. Default empty.
* @type string $option_none_value Value to use when no category is selected. Default empty.
* @type string $orderby Which column to use for ordering categories. See get_terms() for a list
* of accepted values. Default 'id' (term_id).
* @type bool $pad_counts See get_terms() for an argument description. Default false.
* @type bool|int $show_count Whether to include post counts. Accepts 0, 1, or their bool equivalents.
* Default 0.
* @type bool|int $echo Whether to echo or return the generated markup. Accepts 0, 1, or their
* bool equivalents. Default 1.
* @type bool|int $hierarchical Whether to traverse the taxonomy hierarchy. Accepts 0, 1, or their bool
* equivalents. Default 0.
* @type int $depth Maximum depth. Default 0.
* @type int $tab_index Tab index for the select element. Default 0 (no tabindex).
* @type string $name Value for the 'name' attribute of the select element. Default 'cat'.
* @type string $id Value for the 'id' attribute of the select element. Defaults to the value
* of `$name`.
* @type string $class Value for the 'class' attribute of the select element. Default 'postform'.
* @type int|string $selected Value of the option that should be selected. Default 0.
* @type string $value_field Term field that should be used to populate the 'value' attribute
* of the option elements. Accepts any valid term field: 'term_id', 'name',
* 'slug', 'term_group', 'term_taxonomy_id', 'taxonomy', 'description',
* 'parent', 'count'. Default 'term_id'.
* @type string|array $taxonomy Name of the taxonomy or taxonomies to retrieve. Default 'category'.
* @type bool $hide_if_empty True to skip generating markup if no categories are found.
* Default false (create select element even if no categories are found).
* @type bool $required Whether the `<select>` element should have the HTML5 'required' attribute.
* Default false.
* @type Walker $walker Walker object to use to build the output. Default empty which results in a
* Walker_CategoryDropdown instance being used.
* @type string $aria_describedby The 'id' of an element that contains descriptive text for the select.
* Default empty string.
* }
* @return string HTML dropdown list of categories.
*/