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This tutorial shows how to retrieve tags associated with WordPress post. You can retrieve tags for the current post or any other post.

Solution

To retrieve a list of tags, you need the post ID:

$tags = get_the_tags($post_id);

The result in $tags is an array. For each tag assigned with the post, the $tags array contains an object that describes the tag. The tag object has following properties:

• term_id
• name
• slug
• term_group
• term_taxonomy_id
• taxonomy
• description
• parent
• count
• object_id

To retrieve a list of tags for the current post in WordPress Loop:

$tags = get_the_tags($post_id);