Get the term (custom taxonomy) name outside of the loop?

Are you asking to get the terms for a particular post or just a list of terms?

If you want terms for a given post, just replace $post->ID or $wp_query->post->ID with the post ID of the post you desire.

I’m in a category view and I’d like to do stuff like:

<?php is concerts ?>
  "Your viewing posts from: <?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'concerts', '', ', ', '' ); ?> taxonomy"
<?php is Exhibitions ?>
  "Your viewing posts from : <?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'exhibitions', '', ', ', '' ); ?> taxonomy"
<?php  start the loop ?>
  Posts
<?php end loop ?>

And I can’t get the term outside of the loop.

Thanks!

use get_terms_by_slug() fuction. check the codex

Where in codex?

Google doesn’t find anything.

How about:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_terms

Awwww, I can’t figure it out…

Ideally I’d love it to work like single_cat_title

Displays or returns the term name for the current page.

Thanks so far ??

<?php
$taxonomy = 'concerts';
$queried_term = get_query_var($taxonomy);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy, 'slug='.$queried_term);
if ($terms) {
  foreach($terms as $term) {
    echo '<p> This is the Term name ' . $term->name . 'and description '. $term->description . '</p> ';
  }
}
?>

Thanks again Michael!!!!

This is exactly what I have been looking for, but I need one more bit of information.

For the code: $taxonomy = ‘concerts’;

What do I replace ‘concerts’ with if I am using this for my taxonomy.php page so that it pulls the custom taxonomy name from the page itself? Thanks!

pulls the custom taxonomy name from the page itself

echo get_query_var('taxonomy');

Works beautifully – thanks so much for your help!

Thanks everyone for your help. I modified this slightly so I could output a list of my taxonomies along with the corresponding slug that was created in the admin panel.

<?php
$taxonomy = 'event_type';
$queried_term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var($taxonomy) );
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy);
if ($terms) {
  foreach($terms as $term) {
    echo '<li><a href="' . $term->slug . '">' . $term->name .'</a></li>';
  }
}
?>

In my case, my custom taxonomy is ‘event_type.’ This code outputs a list of links of the the event types I created, with the anchor set as the slug defined in the admin panel. All you need to do to modify this is replace ‘event-type’ with the name of your custom taxonomy.

You guys are my new heroes! I can’t tell you how much time I spent on this. Thank you thank you thank you thank you. We go live this weekend and this is what I needed to get the correct page image to show up on my recipepress category pages!

It’s all down here for me!

https://new.organicvillefoods.com/recipe-categories/salads/

Thanks,
Jeremy

Patrick, thanks for posting the code.

Its not quite working for me. It is returning the terms, but the links are not working.

i get this errror:
Warning: Missing argument 3 for get_term_by(), called in C:\wamp\www\M\wp-content\themes\jquerymobile\T-new-home.php on line 9 and defined in C:\wamp\www\M\wp-includes\taxonomy.php on line 874

same problem here. using wp 3.1.3