And now, at last, I’m happy with the way the tag listing appears in the sidebar. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
WordPress 2.3 added tags to the code core, only it didn’t really provide any good methods of working with them. And the solution that worked for previous iterations of WordPress — Ultimate Tag Warrior — didn’t work any longer, once the tags were imported into the new schema.<\/p>\n
So, I tried plug-ins, and I tried the plug-in, Simple Tags<\/a>. And it produced a sidebar tag cloud — as an alphabetical ordered list — that I was completely happy about.<\/p>\n Then the author produced a new version, and…<\/p>\n It didn’t do alphabetical anymore.<\/p>\n I figured out yesterday how to produce an alphabetical tag list, using the function call built into the WordPress core. And then, to make it work with my website layout<\/a>, I whipped up a really short, really dirty sidebar widget to take the top 150 tags and run them alphabetical in the sidebar without doing the crazy different-sized stuff.<\/p>\n At this point, I don’t actually need<\/i> Simple Tags anymore, as both the sidebar tag list and the master tag cloud page<\/a> are being generated by WordPress’s built-in functions. And I’ve used Simple Tags to locate and tag all untagged posts from the past five-plus years.<\/p>\n I’ll still keep it around, though. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Just for kicks, I added the WordPress Cabaret<\/a>. It’s a plug-in that takes posts I’ve written in the past — and it has close to half a million words to chose from — and chops them into poetry. There’s nothing actually useful<\/i> about, but I’ve set up a page<\/a>, and every time it’s loaded it generates new “poetry.” I will say this if you use it — if you see something you like, copy it to Wordpad or something, because you will never, ever see it again. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n I don’t know that there’s any other tweaking I need to do. I’ve written a special calendar widget. I’ve written my tag widget. I’ve got my print stylesheet in place. Tag pages, archive pages, and single pages are all set. Nope, I think it’s all well and done. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And now, at last, I’m happy with the way the tag listing appears in the sidebar. \ud83d\ude42 WordPress 2.3 added tags to the code core, only it didn’t really provide any good methods of working with them. And the solution that worked for previous iterations of WordPress — Ultimate Tag Warrior — didn’t work anyContinue reading “On More Tinkering”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[351,470,4096],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-meta","tag-tags","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}