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title: Adding Tags to a WordPress Theme
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author: Daniel
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date: 2007-11-25 22:47:28
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categories:
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- [ Programming, PHP, WordPress ]
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tags:
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- tag
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- template
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- theme
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- wordpress
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summary: Now that WordPress supports tags, this is how to put them in an existing theme
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WordPress 2.3 introduced tags, but unless you're using the default theme, your theme (like mine) probably didn't support them. Nowhere did I find a good example of how to add tags to your theme. Then, I was playing around with the theme switcher on my personal blog, and discovered that the default theme had tag support. I looked at it, and it was amazingly simple.
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There is a new template tag called ...drumroll... `the_tags`. It takes three parameters: how to begin the list, how to separate each tag, and how to end the list. The tag does not do any output if a post hasn't been tagged, so it can safely sit in your theme until you need it to be active.
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Here's how I did it in my personal blog.
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{% codeblock lang:php %}
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<?php the_tags('<div class="tags">Tags » ', ' • ', '</div>'); ?>
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{% endcodeblock %}
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Of course, you could also do it using an unordered list...
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{% codeblock lang:php %}
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<?php the_tags('Tags<ul class="tags"><li>', '</li><li>', '</li></ul>'); ?>
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{% endcodeblock %}
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Drop some styling for the "tags" class in your theme's CSS, and you're good to go!
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(Well, not quite. You'll want to make sure to make the same change in your main index template, single post template,
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and archive template, so that the tags appear no matter how the user got to the post.)
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