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Function Reference/get the term list

Returns an HTML string of taxonomy terms associated with a post and given taxonomy. Terms are linked to their respective term listing pages.

<?php get_the_term_list( $id, $taxonomy, $before, $sep, $after ) ?>

$id

(int) (required) Post ID

Default: 0

$taxonomy

(string|array) (required) Name of taxonomy

Default: None

$before

(string) (optional) Leading text

Default: None

$sep

(string) (optional) String to separate tags

Default: None

$after

(string) (optional) Trailing text

Default: None

Used inside the loop this outputs the terms from the people taxonomy for a specific post.

 <?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'people', 'People: ', ', ', '' ); ?>

This would return something like.

People: 
<a href="person1">Person 1</a>, 
<a href="person2">Person 2</a>, ...

Used inside the loop this outputs the terms from the styles taxonomy for a specific post as an (x)html list.

echo '<ul class="styles">';
echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'styles', '<li>', ',</li><li>', '</li>' );
echo '</ul>';

This would return something like.

<ul class="styles">
    <li><a href="person1">Style 1,</a></li> 
    <li><a href="person2">Style 2,</a></li>
</ul>

get_the_term_list() is located in wp-includes/category-template.php.