So, in a moment of boredom, earlier today I thought of a great idea… look for a potential new theme for this site. During that process, I had another genius idea; upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1!! To be honest, I have no idea what version I was running, but whatever version it was was kind of old, because I haven’t upgraded in a long time; if ever.
So I upgraded. Then the hilarity ensued. I fucked up by not deactivating my plugins, and low and behold, a tag plugin ate the blog. I deleted it, and we are up and running again; but I need to find another plugin I can use for that function (fyi, it was called Ultimate tag warrior). Then, the sidebar was all fucked up. I remember when widgets came on the scene, and being the late adopter I am with some things, I opted to wait it out… that was, until today when it fucked up my shit.
Well, I seem to have fixed it, and I am actually happy that it let’s you do a drop down list of categories and archives… I always thought they made the page look too stuffy. Anyway, I still haven’t found a theme I like (well, other than this one, which is the most beautiful theme I have ever seen… which is rather fitting, I guess, since he invented wordpress), so I might get crazy and try and tweak this one again. Sometimes, I am just never satisfied.
/gah
tagging is built into the WordPress core now, so you shouldn’t need a tagging plugin. unless there is some advanced feature that core doesn’t support or something.
also, there is a utility to import Ultimate Tag Warrior tags into WP tagging. from your admin: manage > import > Ultimate Tag Warrior. i haven’t used it, so if it breaks things, it’s not my fault.
Bobafred; hrmm… I noticed that it ate all of my tags, so I will try and import them. Where do they display them though? I don’t see them in the entries where they used to be.
the tags *should* still exist in your database. i wouldn’t think the upgrade to 2.5.1 would have messed with that table since it’s not part of WP core. they’re just not viewable on your posts, most likely.
you’ll have to modify your index.php file and use the the_tags tag (that sounds funny). i’m using it on my blog, if you’d like an example of what it can output. read about it here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_tags.
also, it might be useful to bookmark the Template Tags page in the WP Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
Bobafred; thanks for the help. I tired inserting that code into the loop, and it worked, but it puts the tags on the main page, and as such, I took it out. Is there a way to have the tags displayed only on the entry’s page, rather than on the main page? That is the way the UTW plug in did it. If there isn’t a way, I guess I will just do it the other way… but it just looks kinda crowded and clunky if you use a lot of tags like I do.
Thanks again for the expert coding advice.