Meet Bianca or as many know her online mizzFIT:

mizzFIT a.k.a. fitness couturess is a fitness fanatic who finds inner peace through exercise. She believes that being healthy and fit is an instant formula for happiness. Throughout her life she’s had 2 addictions: fitness and fashion.

I think she has a great blog that gives ladies the power and motivation to keep active all while keeping up in the latest fashions!

Did I mention that I want to be a Spiritual Gangester?

To get more of mizzFIT check out the blog or follow her daily happenings on twitter.

So Thumper knows I have GVoice for my voicemail… and he knows I get a text message and email of his transcription.

Sometimes I end up just forwarding the email to the caller with my response. Here is Thumper Nagasako‘s most recent message. First the Transcript:

Now take a listen:

So I was looking at pulling the associated taxonomy terms for a wordpress project I am working on and needed something like the_tags() for the custom taxonomies I created.

The closest thing to documentation on what I was looking for was the_tags() function

Then I dug into the category-template.php source codewhere the_tags() lived.

I found exactly what I needed. Here is the_tags() function:


function the_tags( $before = 'Tags: ', $sep = ', ', $after = '' ) {
return the_terms( 0, 'post_tag', $before, $sep, $after );
}


‘post_tag’ is just what wordpress used as their key when they decided to create the tags taxonomy, I used ‘ethnicity’, ‘eye’ and ‘hair’ for my new taxonomies.

So what you need to do is call the_terms() and it will do the same for whatever taxonomy you define.

NOTE when you create your taxonomy in your functions.php like so:


function create_taxonomies() {
register_taxonomy( 'ethnicity', 'post', array( 'hierarchical' => false, 'label' => 'Ethnicity', 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true ) );
register_taxonomy( 'eye', 'post', array( 'hierarchical' => false, 'label' => 'Eye Color', 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true ) );
register_taxonomy( 'hair', 'post', array( 'hierarchical' => false, 'label' => 'Hair Color', 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true ) );
}

add_action( 'init', 'create_taxonomies', 0 );


be sure to add a hook for where you want to list the taxonomies:


the_terms( 0, 'ethnicity', 'Ethnicity: ', ', ', ' ' );
the_terms( 0, 'eye', 'Eye Color: ', ', ', ' ' );
the_terms( 0, 'hair', 'Hair Color: ', ', ', ' ' );
the_terms( 0, 'height', 'Height: ', ', ', ' ' );


I am not sure what the difference between using the following would be:

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

I think I am cheating by using 0 instead of $post->ID. But the first parameter is the post id, second is the name of the taonomy, third is before, fourth is the seperator, and fifth is what to print after all the terms.

I am not sure how many WP developers are using taxonomies, new in version 2.8, but would be interested in hearing feedback on my approach. When building my taxonomies I used these resources:

Custom Taxonomies in WordPress 2.8 by Justin Tadlock

Custom Taxonomies – Theme Hybrid Support Forums