Once I resolved some minor rewrite problems, Christine Davis’ brilliant plugin Ultimate Tag Warrior allowed me to add a tag cloud to my humble blog. I extended HJL’s workaround to fix problems I encountered with both tag feeds and traditional feeds.
First, the good news - Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) is amazing. Although WordPress Categories offer a flexible taxonomy, they are still rigid when compared to the free form nature of Tagging. UTW adds a tag box when writing posts - enter a list of comma-delimited tags, and UTW transparently offers a drop-in tag cloud as well as optional tag lists at the end of your posts.
In my environment - WordPress 2.0.2 and Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.1 - friendly URL rewrites were not working (e.g. /tag/TAGNAME vs. index.php?tag=TAGNAME). Apparently WordPress 2 added a PHP rewrite layer for new plugin flexibility, but this rewriting occasionaly breaks traditional .htaccess rewrites. For instance, WordPress now internally handles “/tag/TAGNAME” requests.
Building on the concept of HJL’s workaround, I created an .htaccess that offers friendly tag and feed rewrites. The in-line comments explain what each line does. Your mileage may vary.
Thanks in particular to Christine/UTW, and also to HJL, whose demo .htaccess was the first I found that was even close to what I wanted.
[…] A hack from Nathan’s blog to get friendly URLs (E.G.: http://www.kgadams.net/tags/) to work. This still sort of bothers me, since the UTW developer, Christine, seems to imply she has it working with WordPress’ internal URL rewrite features […]
I still can’t seem to get my UTW to work with pretty URLs (website.com/tag/something). I’ve modified my .htaccess per your instructions to no avail. Could you take a look and see if you can figure out what’s the shizzle? Thanks a lot!
http://deanish.com/htaccess.txt
Hello,
with your htaccess detect the url and resolve the 404 problem, but doesn’t conect with the database.
Do you Know what could be the problem?
Thanks
Here there are more datas of the problem:
H t t p://www.nedial.net/tag/buscadores DOESN’T WORK
SELECT * FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_post2tag p2t on wp_posts.ID = p2t.post_id INNER JOIN wp_tags t on p2t.tag_id = t.tag_id WHERE 1=1 AND post_name = ‘buscadores’ AND (post_status = “attachment”) AND t.tag IN (’buscadores’) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC
h t t p://www.nedial.net/tag/buscadores/page/1 WORK
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_post2tag p2t on wp_posts.ID = p2t.post_id INNER JOIN wp_tags t on p2t.tag_id = t.tag_id WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt
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I would be really thankful if you could help me with the code to have my tags format look like yours. This is my firts blog and I am trying to learn!!
I also use Tiga theme.
You have a great blog!!!
My current code is:
Tags
Thanks
How did you get the permalinks to work in the tiga theme? I just started working WP, and you seem to have it working like a charm. When I use it, I lose all CSS style. I just want date and post name…Please help