Custom taxonomies: getingt rid of link on display??

Minor error:

The format of get_the_terms follows the same format as get_terms, with an additional parameter for the post id, so the call above should be:

$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'tagonomy_name', "fields=names") ;

check the codex page for get_terms for available parameters to get_the_terms: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms

Sorry my post was confusing — that’s what I get for trying to do too many things at once, with no way to test code 😉

I’ll stick with what I’ve said: If what you’re doing works, stick with it. No reason to waste time you could be playing Reach ;-D

However, if you want to see what I was trying to explain, here’s some working code and explanation.

<?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'technology' ) ; ?>

get_the_terms returns an array of objects that look a something like the output below internally:

Array
(
    [21] => stdClass Object
        (
            [term_id] => 21
            [name] => windows xp
            [slug] => windows-xp
            [term_group] => 0
            [term_taxonomy_id] => 21
            [taxonomy] => operating_system
            [description] =>
            [parent] => 0
            [count] => 1
            [object_id] => 116
        )
...
)

That’s the difference between the_terms and get_the_terms “get” returns the data instead of echoing. This is a pretty common thing in WP, adding “get_” to a function returns what you were after, rather than echoing it — but not always; I wish it were universal.

Anyway, so you’ll have to do the work on this one and print out what you need:

<dt>Taxonomy Name:</dt>
<?php
	$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'technology' ) ;
	$term_list = array_pop($terms)->name ;
	foreach( $terms as $os )
	{
		$term_list .= ", " . $os->name ;
	}
	echo $term_list ;
?>

That (tested on 3.01, finally) should do what you want and give you the flexibility to output whatever you want. But as I said, if the code you had above does what you want, there’s no real reason to redo it.

For anyone reading this thread, currently at the top of Google, there’s another thread here which I found helpful:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-output-a-posts-terms-taxonomy-as-text-not-urls