diff --git a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
index 75873c3ea5..0651e057c4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
+++ b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
@@ -4381,20 +4381,25 @@ function wp_get_split_term( $old_term_id, $taxonomy ) {
  * Generate a permalink for a taxonomy term archive.
  *
  * @since 2.5.0
+ * @since 4.3.0 Introduced `$field` argument.
  *
  * @param object|int|string $term     The term object, ID, or slug whose link will be retrieved.
  * @param string            $taxonomy Optional. Taxonomy. Default empty.
+ * @param string            $field    Optional. The term field that should be matched by the `$term` argument. Accepts
+ *                                    any `$field` values accepted by `get_term_by()`: 'slug', 'name',
+ *                                    'term_taxonomy_id', or 'id'. Default is 'slug', unless `$term` is an integer, in
+ *                                    which case it's asssumed to be an ID.
  * @return string|WP_Error HTML link to taxonomy term archive on success, WP_Error if term does not exist.
  */
-function get_term_link( $term, $taxonomy = '' ) {
+function get_term_link( $term, $taxonomy = '', $field = null ) {
 	global $wp_rewrite;
 
 	if ( !is_object($term) ) {
-		if ( is_int($term) ) {
-			$term = get_term($term, $taxonomy);
-		} else {
-			$term = get_term_by('slug', $term, $taxonomy);
+		if ( is_null( $field ) ) {
+			$field = is_int( $term ) ? 'id' : 'slug';
 		}
+
+		$term = get_term_by( $field, $term, $taxonomy );
 	}
 
 	if ( !is_object($term) )
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index fdc9d83329..23fc7c6be4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.3-alpha-32552';
+$wp_version = '4.3-alpha-32553';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.