Wordpress: disable links for get_the_category_list function?

Question

Hey my theme uses this function to display the categories a post has, but it also creates links which I would like to get rid of. I prefer php rather than a javascript solution.

Here is the code:

<p class="postmeta">
    <?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type() ) : // Hide category and tag text for pages on Search ?>
        <?php
            /* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */
            $categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'gridster' ) );
            if ( $categories_list && gridster_categorized_blog() ) :
        ?>
            <?php /*printf( __( '%1$s', 'gridster' ), $categories_list );*/ echo $categories_list; ?>
        <?php endif; // End if categories ?>


    <?php endif; // End if 'post' == get_post_type() ?>
</p>

Link to the codex reference

How can I void those links?

or get rid of links all together from DOM (but this might create more work as the actual text is between the <a> tags

HTML

 <p class="postmeta"> 
    <a target="_blank" href="http://whatever.com/category/default/" title="View all posts in Default" rel="category tag">Default</a>
</p>

Thanks!!

Answer 1

If you just want a text-string returned and use the native get_the_categories() function, you could simply wrap it in PHP's strip_tags() function to remove all HTML that is returned:

echo strip_tags( get_the_category_list(__( ', ', 'gridster' ));