How to show category links in Easy Posts’ image overlay

This members-only tutorial provides the steps to replace the date image overlay for the default Easy Posts preset in Oxygen with comma-separated category links (linking to corresponding category archives) image overlay.

Here's How

Add an Easy Posts component.

In the Template PHP replace

<a class='oxy-post-image' href='<?php the_permalink(); ?>'>
  <div class='oxy-post-image-fixed-ratio' style='background-image: url(<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail_url(); ?>);'>
  </div>
  
  <div class='oxy-post-image-date-overlay'>
	<?php the_time(get_option('date_format')); ?>
  </div>
  
</a>

with