Display current taxonomy term when inside custom post type

Question

Well, this should be pretty simple, however I couldn't find answer anywhere on the web. all answers I found were close but no exactly what I needed. what I need is to display just the current term of a custom post type I am in. not all the terms just one! (the relevant one)

this is what I'm using but it displays ALL the terms which is not good for me:

<?php
$taxonomy = 'genre';
$queried_term = get_query_var($taxonomy);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy, 'slug='.$queried_term);
if ($terms) {
  foreach($terms as $term) {
    echo $term->name;
  }
}
?>

remember - I would like to display it in my single post type template can anyone suggest? thanks

Answer 1

Ok, so I finally found what I needed here: How to get current term in my custom taxonomy in WordPress?

the last update at the bottom courtesy of @user3208:

<?php   // Get terms for post
 $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'oil' );
 // Loop over each item since it's an array
 if ( $terms != null ){
 foreach( $terms as $term ) {
 // Print the name method from $term which is an OBJECT
 print $term->slug ;
 // Get rid of the other data stored in the object, since it's not needed
 unset($term);
} } ?>

That solved my issue! Thanks

Answer 2

You should use wp_get_post_terms instead.

$terms = wp_get_post_terms( $post_id, $taxonomy, $args );

get_terms will give you all the terms present in a taxonomy.

UPDATE:

global $post;
$terms = wp_get_post_terms( $post->ID, 'genre');
print_r($terms); #displays the output

Answer 3

Taking what user3208 coded, I have added a bit of code that adds the URL to the Term. Hope that helps someone out.

<?php   // Get terms for post
$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'oil' );
// Loop over each item since it's an array
if ( $terms != null ){
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
$term_link = get_term_link( $term, 'oil' );
 // Print the name and URL
echo '<a href="' . $term_link . '">' . $term->name . '</a>';
// Get rid of the other data stored in the object, since it's not needed
unset($term); } } ?>

Answer 4

<?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'yourtaxonomy', '', ', ' ); ?>