I am making a new WordPress template and I want to just get, in text format, the list of tags associated with a post. I am using
get_the_tag_list($id)
The template tag get_the_tags() returns an array of all of the tags associated with the post currently in-context within the Loop. You could traverse this array and generate a comma-separated list by hand.
Here's an example of how you could do it using the implode and print_r functions:
<?php
$posttags = get_the_tags();
if ($posttags) {
foreach ($posttags as $tag) {
$tagnames[count($tagnames)] = $tag->name;
}
$comma_separated_tagnames = implode(", ", $tagnames);
print_r($comma_separated_tagnames);
}
?>
<?php
$posttags = get_the_tags();
if ($posttags) {
foreach($posttags as $tag) {
echo $tag->name . ',';
}
}
?>
Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_the_tags