How to display the_tags() as plain text

I’m glad you figured it out, but below is a quick semantic alteration (swapping your use of $tag singular and $tags plural will help it read closer to what it is doing; functionally it is no different). I also added cases for inside and outside the Loop, and a conditional so you don’t end up … Read more

not functioning

I see several things that may be contributing to your issue. First, you’re using a custom page template to display the blog posts index, instead of using home.php as specified by the Template Hierarchy. That might be a problem, because the <!–more–> tag doesn’t work on singular pages, and since you’re doing funky things with … Read more

How can you tie into the tag metabox?

Here’s a workaround specific for the post tags meta box. We can register a custom metabox callback for the post_tag taxonomy with: add_filter( ‘register_taxonomy_args’, function( $args, $taxonomy ) { // Replace the original (post_tag) metabox callback with our wrapper if( ‘post_tag’ === $taxonomy ) $args[‘meta_box_cb’] = ‘wpse_post_tags_meta_box’; return $args; }, 10, 2 ); where our … Read more

How can I let my audience tag my posts?

Andrew, Matt Mullenweg uses a similar feature on on his blog, Ma.tt, that lets users tag photos. He released the code as a plugin, Matts Community Tags. You will have to create a custom taxonomy for the tags and add some additional code to your templates to make it work. See the discussion on the … Read more

What is the difference between terms and tags?

Simple yet tough question, taxonomies are just groups of categories, while terms are just single categories within these groups.* So, for example, if you create a new post and choose category for it – the category itself is a term, and opening YourWordpressURL/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category you’re going to see all the categories (taxonomy). Terms and Tags are … Read more