How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme, Part 2
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How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme
Christine Davis, author of Ultimate Tag Warrior, dropped by the comments to say that UTW would be updated to work with the WP 2.3 tagging system. This is good news for all fans of UTW who appreciate the added flexibility and utility of the very popular plug-in.
Some of the questions that have been asked on my previous article:
Does Wordpress 2.3 have a means of importing Ultimate Tag Warrior / Simple Tagging / Jerome’s Keywords tags?
As of WP 2.3 Beta 2, it appears these tagging systems are imported automatically. Beta 3 was the first that I installed, and I remember that there were no options or extra steps I had to take to import UTW tags. Otto, who seems to be a Wordpress developer, makes it pretty clear in that support thread that he considers most of the tag management menus to be superfluous, and that’s why there are no options menus in WP 2.3 that would make it obvious what did or did not get imported.
How do you customize the tag display?
I guess the code doesn’t really give you much insight. Here are three of the ways you can customize your tag display:
<?php the_tags('Article Tags>> ', ' | ' , ''); ?>
<?php the_tags('Tags<LI>', '<BR />' , '</LI>'); ?>
This would look better with additional changes to your STYLE.CSS, where you can customize the way lists are displayed.
<?php the_tags('Tags<LI>', '<LI>' , '</LI>'); ?>
Can updated themes be used by people who haven’t switched to WP 2.3?
Important info for theme designers! Blogging Pro asked this on his blog and Nathan Rice was quick with an answer. PHP allows you check whether a function exists before you use it. If you wrap your tag call within a conditional statement, the tag call would only be made by WP 2.3+ users. If you enter the tag code without this conditional statement, and a WP 2.2 user loaded your theme, the code would probably kick out an error message. Theme designers will want to wrap their tag code like this:
<?php if ( function_exists('wp_tag_cloud') ) : ?>
<?php the_tags('Article Tags>> ', ' | ' , ''); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
I’m headed to work now… any other questions, certainly ask I’ll try to find the answers!
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42 Responses
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September 21st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
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Antonio
September 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pm
2Hello. What do I have to do if I want to print, in the tag.php page, the name of the clicked tag? Something like “All entries with tag ‘xxx’” on top of the page. Thanks! Antonio
Niky
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:42 am
3I’m wondering why you closed (?>) and opened (
Niky
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:44 am
4Seems like that destructed my comment. I meant to ask why you opened and closed the php tag in that last piece of code?
Nice work for the rest though. I’m very happy UTW will support the 2.3 tag system.
berny
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:13 am
5hi folks!
have you got any idea who to get the tags into a php variable? - i would need that for example to pass them onto flickr for mash-up.
berny
Ryan B
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
6Niky - PHP allows you to write IF statements two ways. The first is with curly braces — if(something){do whatever is in here}. The second doesn’t use curly, but uses the endif command to say this is the end of the IF statement. It is just a coding practice to put it on it’s own line.
Joe Clark
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm
7You need to close each LI element, and you should not use BR in an LI unless you really absolutely know what you’re doing.
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September 23rd, 2007 at 1:53 am
12@Antonio: To display a tag title in it’s archive page you would use single_tag_title()
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S.k
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
14Should we not add “” and “” elements for the list to work, or have they been incorporated already in the coding?
S.K
Casey
September 25th, 2007 at 5:19 am
15How can I add the tags in the new system to the meta keywords?
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September 25th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
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September 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
23I couldn’t understand some parts of this article o.us poetry, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
Codicis
September 28th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
24Maybe i had different expectations from tags. Tags are Ok, don’t take me wrong, but i felt that the main target for tags was to fill this meta tag:
I can do that by myself, now that i have the tags stored somewhere, but i feel there could be an API to do that, since tags are focused in SEO practices.
Just to drop my comment, thanks for the enlightening on the subject.
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Kim
October 1st, 2007 at 9:35 am
27I am wondering something. Currently I use my tags to tag each of my quilting projects in my hobby blog. I am trying to make a page with current status and gallery photos. I would like to add a “related posts” to each project’s page. How can I specify to list each post with the specified tag? Hope that is as clear as mud..
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October 12th, 2007 at 2:40 am
30Thanks for great example how to use tag. I a bit comfuse with first post.
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October 21st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
32Rich rocks! I don’t know why I didn’t see part 2 in the first thread. I think I just kept scrolling and reading downward, and didn’t see the mention/links on the top. Thanks for the email re samples for complete code. I will wait for UTW to be updated.
PS I am not seeing the Preview before I post this, and it’s cutting off words as I write this. Just so you know. It’s always something!
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November 14th, 2007 at 5:10 am
35It’s great. I googled “wordpress 2.3 tag” and find this site. It’s of great help. Thanks a lot.
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Ahmad
December 5th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
37Hi, Thnx. 4 those two articles. I’ve implemented the function within my blog’s theme. However, when I click on a tag it goes to an empty archive page that says it didn’t find any results for my search term!! How can I fix that?
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December 20th, 2007 at 10:28 am
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December 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am
39Great site!”
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41Thanks for solving this issue for me! I was pulling my hair out and you made it so simple!
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