List terms from a custom taxonomy without links

There have been times when I have needed to get a list of terms (or one specific term) from a custom taxonomy to output on a page template, but using ‘get_the_terms’ outputs each term as a clickable link.

To list the terms without links, use the following:

$terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'taxonomy'); // change 'taxonomy' to the slug of your custom taxonomy
if($terms != null) { // if there is data returned
    $output = array();
    foreach($terms as $term) { // loop through the results
        $output[] = $term->name; // add the term name to an array
        unset($term);
    }
    echo implode(", ", $output) // separate each object in the array by a comma
}

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