Title: parse_term_query
Published: August 16, 2016
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# do_action( ‘parse_term_query’, WP_Term_Query $query )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires after term query vars have been parsed.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$query`[WP_Term_Query](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_term_query/)

Current instance of [WP_Term_Query](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_term_query/).

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( 'parse_term_query', $this );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-term-query.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/class-wp-term-query.php#L291)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/class-wp-term-query.php#L291-L291)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Term_Query::parse_query()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_term_query/parse_query/)`wp-includes/class-wp-term-query.php` |

Parse arguments passed to the term query with default query parameters.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/parse_term_query/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.6.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.6.0/) | Introduced. |

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