For you Wordpress Plugin Gurus

[bhopkins]

I'm running into a little issue I was hoping some of you Wordpress developer gurus could give me a clue about.

I need to get the tags in a post form a call in the sidebar and I can't seem to make it work. Now I am by no means a PHP guru so I'm probably doing this all wrong.

First I tried to just call <?php the_tags('') ?> which works fine from within the loop, but not when called from the sidebar.

Then I tried <?php get_tags('') ?> and <?php get_the_tags ?>

And finally

<?php $post->get_the_tags('') ?>

Which pretty much keeps screwing up the site and causing it not to load.

I can't believe this is eluding me as it seems like it should be simple. All the examples I've found of using get_the_tags so using a function and returning a list with the links of the tags too. Since I don't really know php all that well yet( I'm learning), then I'm not sure how to translate the examples I've found to usable for me, plus I can't believe there is not just function I can call to get this text easily.

tia
Bruce

[cage73]

Try this code.

<?php wp_tag_cloud( $args ); ?>

[jasonmorgan]

did you want all of your sites tags in the sidebar? then cage73 (up above) has given you the answer.

learn more here

[bhopkins]

I don't want all the tags from the site. Just the ones that are in the current post that is displayed. So I need to pull the tags from the current post from single.php.

[Austin Delaney]

Not sure if this will work:

Display Different Sidebar for Each Post and Page for WordPress

(there's also a plugin that will display sidebar widgets depending on post id but can't remember what it is)

[markshields]

I had the same issue and I just used the info in the last post here and it worked for me, Thanks again

[bhopkins]

The main issue here is the sidebar is outside the loop. I found this article which gives a function that will make this work out great if anyone is interested.

Tags Outside The Loop In WordPress | Knee Deep In Code

Bruce