Seijun

No problem. You can also find it by searching the forum for taxonomy shortcode. Here is the topic:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-custom-taxonomy-output-within-posts-1

And here is the code, goes in functions.php:

function get_tax() {
	global $post;
	$tax_and_terms = '';
        $tax_and_terms .= strip_tags( get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'gender', '<dl><dt>Gender: </dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ), '<dl><dt><dd>' );
        $tax_and_terms .= strip_tags( get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'age', '<dt>Age: </dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ), '<dl><dt><dd>' );
	$tax_and_terms .= get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'location', '<dt>Loc: </dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' );
        $tax_and_terms .= strip_tags( get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'status', '<dt>Status: </dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ), '<dl><dt><dd>' );
	$tax_and_terms .= get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'contact', '<dt>Contact: </dt><dd>', ' or ', '</dd></dl>' );
	return $tax_and_terms;
}
add_shortcode('tax', 'get_tax');

The shortcode “tax” will output the terms for my custom taxonomies (gender, age, status, location, and contact) in definition list form. Strip tags is used to keep some terms from linking to their taxonomy archive pages. Working example is here:
http://wolfdogrescue.net/adoption/all-available/male/amarook-nv/

Thanks. And for allowing certain tags? This seemed logical, but didn’t work.
$tax_and_terms .= strip_tags( get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'gender' <dl><dt>Gender: ', ', ', '</dt>' )$tax_and_terms, '<dl><dt>,<dd>,&nbsp' );

I replaced echo with return and replaced the_terms with get_the_terms. After replacing echo with return the output is now within the post, but only shows the first taxonomy in the list (gender:female)

function get_tax() {

$terms_as_text = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'gender', '<dl class="my-stats2"><dt>Gender:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ) ;
return strip_tags($terms_as_text, '<dl><dt>,<dd>,&nbsp');

$terms_as_text = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'age', '<dt>Age:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ) ;
return strip_tags($terms_as_text, '<dt>,<dd>,&nbsp');

get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'location', '<dt>Loc:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' );

$terms_as_text = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'status', '<dt>Status:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ) ;
return strip_tags($terms_as_text, '<dt>,<dd>,&nbsp');

get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'contact', '<dt>Contact:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ' or ', '</dd></dl>' );

}
add_shortcode('tax', 'get_tax');

It’s not moving on the the second item in the list. I’m guessing there is something else I need to separate each “get_the_terms” statement, but I have no idea what.

Ok, I have the shortcode part figured out, but I don’t know how to make the shortcode use a block of php without getting errors. Here is my shortcode code:

function get_tax() {
	return 'php code here';
}
add_shortcode('tax', 'get_tax');

And this is the php code I want the shortcode to execute (displays a list of taxonomy terms associated with the post):

<dl class="my-stats">

$terms_as_text = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'gender', '<dt>Gender:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ) ;
echo strip_tags($terms_as_text, '<dt>,<dd>,&nbsp');

$terms_as_text = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'age', '<dt>Age:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ) ;
echo strip_tags($terms_as_text, '<dt>,<dd>,&nbsp');

the_terms( $post->ID, 'location', '<dt>Loc:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' );

$terms_as_text = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'status', '<dt>Status:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ', ', '</dd>' ) ;
echo strip_tags($terms_as_text, '<dt>,<dd>,&nbsp');

the_terms( $post->ID, 'contact', '<dt>Contact:&nbsp</dt><dd>', ' or ', '</dd>' );

</dl>

Can anyone help, please?

So basically one just deletes the sidebar and the other also deletes the sidebar but also gives the option to replace it with something else..

Would just plain is_multitax() work for both all muti tax and single tax pages, or does my conditional also need to include is_tax for single tax pages?

Here is the code for my description. I got this from a tutorial on making tax archive pages. Sorry if the answer is obvious, I don’t really know any php.

<?php
if ( tag_description() !== '' ) { ?>
<?php echo tag_description(); ?>
<?php } ?>

@ aut0poietic:: Thank you for taking the time to reply. I tried the code in your last post

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

But the results were same as before. No output of any kind, as if the code did not even exist.