Once you’ve happily tagged your pages using Page Tagger you need to edit your theme’s page.php template. This is the template which gets used by WordPress whenever you view a static page (as opposed to a blog post) on your site. Inside this file you should have a section resembling “The Loop”:

<? php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ? >
...
<? php endwhile; endif; ? >

Inside this section you need to place a call to the the_tags() template method. This will output your page tags at that spot with some default formatting. Read the documentation for the_tags() for information on changing how it works. You can also use alternative functions such as get_the_tags()or get_the_tag_list() to achieve a similar effect.

If for some reason your page tags still aren’t showing on your page then please get in touch as it maybe a bug in the Page Tagger plugin.

Also, I’ve put up a few Java classes I wrote a while back as a small library called Common-Utils. Included within are the following:

• ArrayUtils – Utility methods to fill an array with a given value or check if it contains a given value.
• DynamicArray – A resizable “static” array for when you don’t quite need the full flexibility of ArrayList.
• NonMutableIterator – Wraps around a normal Iterator and disables use of the remove method.

Grab it now from here or the WordPress plugin repository.

Some users were reporting that the tag editing interface was unusable when used in conjunction with certain other plugins (e.g. the multi-level navigation plugin). Other users were having trouble getting the plugin to work in the latest version of WordPress (2.8.6). This release (hopefully) fixes these issues.

Grab it now from here or the WordPress plugin repository.

Update (Nov20): The plugin has been updated to 0.3.3 now. This fixes a callback bug which was preventing the plugin from initialising on certain installations.

If you’re interested in sharing your own plugins with the WordPress community the instructions and FAQs are available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/.

Update (Sep16): The plugin is now available in the WordPress plugin directory at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-tagger/

This plugin requires PHP 5 and WordPress 2.8.4. It has been tested on upto WordPress 3.2.1. An older version of the plugin is available below for WordPress 2.7 users.

WordPress plugin page: link.

Github page: link.

License: GPL 3.

Current version: 0.3.7

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Installation

WordPress 2.7

1. Download Page-Tags 0.2.
2. Unzip it into your WordPress plugins folder such that the plugin files are at wp-content/plugins/page-tags/....
3. Enable the plugin within your blog’s administration options.
4. All done!

WordPress 2.8.4 and above

1. Download the latest version from the WordPress plugin directory page.
2. Unzip it into your WordPress plugins folder such that the plugin files are at wp-content/plugins/page-tagger/....
3. Enable the plugin within your blog’s administration options.
4. All done!

Usage

To add tags to a page simply edit the page. You will see a tagging box on on the right-hand side which works exactly like the one you see when you edit a blog post. It should look something like this (assuming you’re using the default admin theme for WordPress 2.8):

Furthermore, when viewing the archives for a given tag you will now see the associated pages as well as the blog posts: Example.

Page tags will also appear within the tag cloud widget.

To get your page tags showing on your pages follow these instructions.

Changelog

• 0.3.7 (Nov 32, 2011)
  • Fixed tag counts for custom post types – thanks Ov3rfly.
• 0.3.6 (Jun 8, 2010)
  • The plugin now works with WordPress 3 RC1.
• 0.3.5 (Jan 16, 2010)
  • When clicking ‘Preview’ button ‘Add new tag’ no longer gets added as a tag
  • Updated documentation
• 0.3.4 (Dec 20, 2009)
  • Fixed to work with WordPress 2.9
• 0.3.3 (Nov 20, 2009)
  • Fixed callback bug which was preventing the plugin from initialising on certain installations.
• 0.3.2 (Nov 18, 2009)
  • Fixed plugin conflict issue which was sometimes causing the tag editing interface to stop working.
• 0.3.1 (Sep 8, 2009)
  • Plugin renamed to Page Tagger
• 0.3 (Sep 8, 2009)
  • Plugin now works in WordPress 2.8+.
  • If your page tags were no longer showing in tag clouds then you need to upgrade to this version (0.3) and then follow instructions to restore the correct post counts for each tag.
• 0.2 (Apr 3, 2009)
  • Fixed a bug which was preventing tags added whilst editing pages from appearing in the tag cloud widget.
• 0.1 (Jan 18, 2009) – the initial release.

Under the previous version of Page-Tags (0.2) upgrading to WordPress 2.8 may have caused your page tags to no longer appear in tag clouds. To rectify this install the latest version of the plugin and then re-save (edit and save without making any changes) all your pages. This will correct the post counts for each tag, which in turn will cause your page tags to show up again in tag clouds.

Note: Page-Tags 0.3 is not backwards compatible with WordPress 2.7, so if you’re running the older version of WordPress please stick to using Page-Tags 0.2.

Update (Sep8): The plugin has been renamed to Page Tagger. And it requires WordPress 2.8.4 to function correctly (thanks Leo).

Update (Sep15): Instead of editing and re-saving all your pages to update the post count you can simply run the following query in your MySQL database (replace wp_ with the appropriate prefix for your database tables):

UPDATE wp_term_taxonomy t set count=(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_term_relationships r, wp_posts p WHERE p.ID = r.object_id AND (p.post_type = 'post' OR p.post_type='page') AND r.term_taxonomy_id = t.term_taxonomy_id)

This issue has now been fixed in the latest version. To get the tags you’ve already added showing, install the updated plugin, and then edit and save the corresponding pages without making any changes. For the developers among you, the cause of this bug is situated the callback function used to calculate how many posts are linked to a given tag:

function _update_post_term_count( $terms ) {
    global $wpdb;

    foreach ( (array) $terms as $term ) {
        $count = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->term_relationships, $wpdb->posts WHERE $wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' AND term_taxonomy_id = %d", $term ) );
        $wpdb->update( $wpdb->term_taxonomy, compact( 'count' ), array( 'term_taxonomy_id' => $term ) );
    }
}

As you can see it only counts blog posts. Page-Tags 0.2 simply replaces this callback function with one which also counts pages.

Note: The sidebar tag cloud widget will only show the top 45 tags (see the documentation for the wp_tag_cloud function).

So I decided to write my own plugin (both as a learning experience and for fun!) which would let me tag pages using the same interface as is used for tagging blog posts. And here it is: Page-Tags. It’s very simple – it doesn’t have any admin options to set – but it gets the job done. Simple install and activate the plugin and then try editing one of your pages. You should see a tagging box like this on the right-hand side:

This box looks and feels exactly like the one you see when you edit a blog post, and it works the same way too (it has the lookup-as-you-type feature). Additionally, when viewing the archive page for a given tag or tags you should now see the list of tagged pages as well as blog posts. You can see this in action in my tag archives.

By the way, I use the brilliant Custom Query String “Reloaded” plugin to ensure that there’s no limit to the no. of posts I can display in the tag archives.