View Custom Taxonomy Term is a WordPress ability from Advanced Custom Fields — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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View Custom Taxonomy Term

Read-only

Get a single term from a specific AI-accessible ACF custom taxonomy by ID.

Requires Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) 6.8.0+ on a WordPress install where the Abilities API is available (native from WordPress 6.9, or via a compatible Abilities/Feature API polyfill). ACF's global 'Allow AI Access' setting (enable_acf_ai) must be turned on, and each individual field group, custom post type, or custom taxonomy must also have its own 'Allow AI Access' toggle enabled and be exposed in the REST API (show_in_rest) before its abilities are registered. Most abilities additionally require the current user to hold ACF's configured management capability (acf_get_setting('capability'), default manage_options) or the matching WordPress post-type/taxonomy capability (create_posts, edit_posts, delete_posts, manage_terms, edit_terms, delete_terms).

What it does

ACF dynamically registers one of these view abilities for every eligible custom taxonomy — the ability ID follows the pattern acf/view-{taxonomy-slug} (e.g. acf/view-genre). It proxies a GET request to that term's WordPress REST API endpoint, returning the term along with any values from AI-accessible ACF field groups attached to the taxonomy.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Show me the details of the Genre term with ID 7."

Inputs

Name Type Required Description
id integer Yes The ID of the term to view.

Returns

The requested term in the taxonomy's WordPress REST API term schema, including its ACF field values.

Permission

The current user must have the 'read' capability.

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