WordPress Custom Post Type – Categories Now Showing

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I created a custom post type for a site and I have categories showing on the post in the admin, but when I call them on the public site, the list is always blank. I am not sure what I am missing.

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/* Custom Post Type Galleries */

function bhgallery_register_post_type() {

    $singular = 'Gallery';
    $plural = 'Galleries';

    $labels = array (
        'name' => $plural,
        'singular' => $singular,
        'add_name' => 'Create New',
        'add_new_item' => 'Create New ' . $singular,
        'edit' => 'Edit',
        'edit_item' => 'Edit ' . $singular,
        'new_item' => 'New' . $singular,
        'view' => 'View' . $singular,
        'view_item' => 'View' . $singular,
        'search_term' => 'Search ' . $plural,
        'parent' => 'Parent ' . $singular,
        'not_found' => 'No ' . $plural . ' Found',
        'not_found_in_trash' => 'No ' . $plural . ' in Trash'

    );

    $args = array ( 
        'labels'                => $labels,
        'public'                => true,
        'public_queryable'      => true,
        'exclude_from_search'   => false,
        'show_in_nav_menus'     => true,
        'show_in_admin_bar'     => true,
        'menu_position'         => 10,
        'menu_icon'             => 'dashicons-camera',
        'can_export'            => true,
        'delete_with_user'      => false,
        'hierarchical'          => false,
        'has_archive'           => true,
        'query_var'             => true,
        'capability_type'       => 'post',
        'map_meta_cap'          => true,
        // 'capabilities' => array();
        'rewrite'               => array(
            'slug'          => 'gallery',
            'with_front'    => true,
            'pages'         => true,
            'feeds'         => false,
        ),
        'supports'              => array(
            'title',
            'thumbnail',
            'editor'
        )
    );

    register_post_type( 'bh_gallery', $args );

}

add_action ( 'init', 'bhgallery_register_post_type');


/** Custom Categories for Gallery **/

function bhgallery_register_taxonomy() {

    $plural = 'Categories';
    $singular = 'Category';

    $labels = array (
            'name'                      => $plural,
            'singular_name'             => $singular,
            'search_items'              => 'Search ' . $plural,
            'popular_items'             => 'Popular ' . $plural,
            'all_items'                 => 'All ' . $plural,
            'parent_item'               => null,
            'parent_item_colon'         => null,
            'edit_item'                 => 'Edit ' . $singular,
            'update_item'               => 'Update ' . $singular,
            'add_new_item'              => 'Add New ' . $singular,
            'new_item_name'             => 'New ' . $singular . ' Name',
            'separate_items_with_comas' => 'Seperate ' . $singular . ' with commas',
            'add_or_remove_items'       => 'Add or remove ' . $plural,
            'choose_from_most_used'     => 'Choose from the most used ' . $plural,
            'not_found'                 => 'No ' . $plural . 'fount',
            'menu_name'                 => $plural,
        );

    $args = array (
        'hierarchical'          => true,
        'labels'                => $labels,
        'show_ui'               => true,
        'show_admin_column'     => true,
        'update_count_callback' => '_update_post_term_count',
        'query_var'             => true,
        'rewrite'               => array( 'slug' => 'categories'),
        );

    register_taxonomy( 'gallery category', 'bh_gallery', $args );
}

add_action ( 'init', 'bhgallery_register_taxonomy');

HOME PAGE 

<div class="portfolio-categories">Categories:<?php the_category(', '); ?></div>
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  1. The code you are using to show the categories – are you using this within The Loop? If not, then it’s only going to get categories for the current post (which, if it’s the homepage, is probably none).

    Otherwise if you are trying to get all terms for your post type, using get_terms() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms will allow you to get your terms by post type and then you could loop them to display them:

    $terms = get_terms( 'my_taxonomy' );
if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ){
    echo '<ul>';
    foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
      echo '<li>' . $term->name . '</li>';

    }
    echo '</ul>';
}

    =================== UPDATE ==============
    Thanks for your clarification – try using the following instead to fetch your custom taxonomy in the loop:

    <div class="portfolio-categories">Categories:<?php the_terms(get_the_ID(),'gallery_category'); ?></div>

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