You're doing it correct @its_me. The latter, get_term_by() would be the best way, In my opinion , as I believe get_category_by_path uses get_term_by, just prepopulating the taxonomy to be category.

You're doing it correct @its_me. The latter, get_term_by() would be the best way, In my opinion , as I believe get_category_by_path uses get_term_by, just prepopulating the taxonomy to be category.

Edit: As I mentioned in my comment, get_category_by_path is much less efficient, since it gets multiple terms,. and then compares the hierarchical path. get_term_by is much better.

You're doing it correct @its_me. The latter, get_term_by() would be the best way, In my opinion, as I believe get_category_by_path uses get_term_by, just prepopulating the taxonomy to be category.

You're doing it correct @its_me. The latter, get_term_by() would be the best way, In my opinion , as I believe get_category_by_path uses get_term_by, just prepopulating the taxonomy to be category.