Trying to output a post’s terms (taxonomy) as text, not URLs

I’d expect ..

<ul>
<?php get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'taxonomy' , '<li>' , '</li><li>' , '</li>' ); ?>
</ul>

..to work… ??

Codex page is clear enough i think..

<ul>
<?php get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'taxonomy' , '<li>' , '</li><li>' , '</li>' ); ?>
</ul>

How would you go about adding a class name that is the same as the taxonomy name, to each of those list items?

Add it to the element in the code literally?

<ul>
<?php get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'my_taxonomy' , '<li class="my_taxonomy">' , '</li><li class="my_taxonomy">' , '</li>' ); ?>
</ul>

Thanks for the speedy reply, not quite what i was after. I’m trying to create a class name for the value of each taxonomy.

<ul>
<?php get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'colours' , '<li>' , '</li><li>' , '</li>' ); ?>
</ul>

Produces a list something like:

• red
• blue
• green

I want each list item to have a class that corresponds to the list value… eg red, blue or green

Oh, you mean the term, beyond the scope of that particular function, the example i gave further up using get_terms would be suitable though.

Something like..

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

if ( empty( $terms ) ) :

echo '<ul>';

foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
	$link = get_term_link( $term, $taxonomy );
	if ( !is_wp_error( $link ) )
		echo '<li class="' . $term->slug. '"><a href="' . $link . '" rel="tag">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
}

echo '</ul>';

endif;
?>

Untested, but it should work..

Ah perfect! Well almost, you were missing the ! in:

if ( !empty( $terms ) ) :

Thanks heaps, exactly what I was after ??

Oops… ??

Happy to help.. ??

I am trying to do something like this. Instead of returning a list of all the categories within a custom taxonomy, I only want to return the first one. I have a portfolio page with ‘media’ as my custom taxonomy. I want to show the name of each category inside ‘media’ (identity, print, web) as a link to a category archive. Underneath the link will be thumbnails of the posts in that category.

When I use the get_term_link inside the loop, it returns the link each time it shows a post. If I use it in its own seperate loop it returns the link like I want, but it returns it multiple times depending on the number of posts.

<?php
$post_type = 'Portfolio';
$tax = 'media';
$tax_terms = get_terms($tax);
if ($tax_terms) {
foreach ($tax_terms as $tax_term) {
$args=array(
'post_type' => $post_type,
"$tax" => $tax_term->slug,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);

$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {

$divName = $tax_term->name ;?>

<div class="<?php echo $divName; ?>">

<?php echo $tax_term->name. ' Projects ' ;

This is what I’m using now to display the category name a single time. Is it possible to attach the link to this? Can get_term_link be used outside the loop, or modified to return only the first result?