Wordpress - get_terms() returns “invalid taxonomy” (this is not a hook issue)

Question

On my local machine it works fine, but on the live server, when I run

get_terms(\'taxonomy\' => \'any_taxonomy\');

it returns a list of

Answer 1

i'd say you are running different versions of wordpress, 4.5 changed the functionality of get_terms()

 get_terms(  array('taxonomy' => 'any_taxonomy','hide_empty' => false) );

Should work, but i also think if you are calling get_terms() before registering your taxonomy is going to cause issues.