atppp’s Blog

WordPress 2.3 native tagging support

Why tagging if you already have category system? I like to think the blog as a book: categories are like the table of contents, while tags are the keyword index in the appendix. These two are complementary and you obviously use both of them. Vendor catalogs and academic journals often have similar two systems as well.

If your WordPress theme does not support native tagging, here are two templates to save you:

• Show tags after blog entry. Insert the following at an appropriate location (reference)

  <?php the_tags( '<p>Tags: ', ', ', '</p>'); ?>

• Show tag cloud. Add the following in the sidebar (reference)

  <?php wp_tag_cloud(''); ?>

Tags: lang:en, tags, wordpress