Tag post is not working
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Hi, I’m using wordpress.com ‘Blank Canvas’ theme to design my web site. I have added tags for my posts but when I tried to click on the tag after I launched my site (for example, I clicked one of the tags from tag cloud), it’s not showing the correct posts tagged under it.
I am not sure which steps did I missed out. Perhaps is there anyone could kindly guide me how to do it? Do I need to go to Editor>Templates and create each tag page one by one? If yes that could be really a lot.. Please advise. Thank you!
My site: parkjihoonmay.wordpress.comThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there!
The tag pages will be created automatically, you do not have to worry about those. Could you share a link to a particular tag page where the posts under it are not correct? We’ll be happy to take a look.
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Hi, sorry for late response.
For example, this is one of the tag page: https://parkjihoonmay.wordpress.com/tag/mbc/
The tag page is showing the template (Editor > Template > TAG) instead of the correct posts which tagged under ‘MBC’. So every tag in the site is showing the same template page. Could you please advise? Thank you! -
Hi there,
I noticed that you created a bunch of custom tag pages here, to clarify, you are trying to create custom tag pages (each with a different layout) for each of your 269 tags? Or did you have something else in mind?
The reason I ask is because as my colleague mentions above, WordPress will manage all these pages for you. It’s not necessary to create a separate template for each tag in the way you are doing now.
I think the issue with some tag pages showing the same posts over and over is related to the template edits you are making, so I’m hoping you can clarify your intention so we can find the best way to help you with setting tags up. Thanks for the additional info!
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Hi, it is because when I clicked on the tag (before I created all these tag pages), it doesn’t show the correct posts as it is, so I tried to play around and found that the only way to show the correct posts is to create different tag pages first. Since there are a lot of tags, so I think there should be other methods to do it.
Could you please advise what should I do so that wordpress will auto generate the tags correctly? Thank you! -
For your info: All I want is, as long as I click on any tag from tag cloud/ or the tags in each article post, there will be a page showing all the correct posts that are tagged under a specific tag, with the header and footer for my site. Thank you.
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Thanks for confirming. By default the Blank Canvas theme is a pretty simple (I would say minimal) theme. It only has these 4 templates by default:
In WordPress terms, the “Index” template is the one that displays lists of blog posts on this theme. This one template is used for the appearance of your main blog feed pages, but also it is used for category and tag archive pages.
I noticed that you have modified your index template to give it a custom layout, you can see that here: https://parkjihoonmay.wordpress.com/wp-admin/site-editor.php?postId=pub%2Fblank-canvas-3%2F%2Findex&postType=wp_template&canvas=edit
First, let me say you’ve done a nice job of customizing here. You appear to have made what looks like a custom homepage or landing page of some kind. The issue is that in customizing this template, it has broken the functionality that allows tags and categories to use this template as well. That is why tags like this don’t show the blog posts you expect, but instead show the same layout over and over, the custom one you created:
https://parkjihoonmay.wordpress.com/tag/airport/
The only way to correct this is to reset the Index template, which will remove all customizations, but will also restore the ability of this template to display “tag pages” that show only posts from one specific tag.
You can reset this here: https://parkjihoonmay.wordpress.com/wp-admin/site-editor.php?path=%2Fwp_template%2Fall
The option to reset is found here:
Another option I might suggest instead is to use a different theme. The Blank Canvas theme is very minimal and we typically only recommend it to folks that are experienced WordPress users or have a background in web design. You might actually find one of our other themes to be a better starting point for your customizations though, since they have more stuff “built in” that you would have to manually create under the Blank Canvas theme.
All of the themes here use the Site Editor and allow you to edit templates, so you may want to take a look around and see if any would be an ideal starting point for you. https://wordpress.com/themes/free/filter/full-site-editing/
If you prefer to stay with the Blank Canvas them that is fine too. In that case I might recommend resetting the Index template and the considering the creation of a custom homepage template instead. It seems you would like to have a “magazine-style” homepage with a lot of different sections, and this is idea for a homepage, and will allow the index template to do it’s job of displaying blog posts for pages other than your homepage.
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
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Thank you so much for your clarifications. If I would like to remain the ‘blank canvas’ template with my current homepage design, can I still keep it if I reset the index page? If I reset the index page, should I move or customize my homepage under ‘Front Page’ section? (Templates>Front Page) or any other ways to do so?
Thank you!
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Yes you can copy all blocks from the Index template and paste them into another template. Sounds like you plan to use that customization as the basis for your site Homepage, so it would be appropriate to paste the blocks into the Front Page template.
Then you can reset the Index template, so that it displays posts (other than the homepage) using the default appearance.
Thanks!
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Hi! I have reset the Index page, and added new Front Page, but here comes another question: when I click on the tag, it’s showing blank page. Is it because my “Tag” template page is blank? (Editor > Template > Tag), I tried to add a ‘blog post’ block in the Tag page for testing but it will show fixed blog posts for all tags, how could I set it?
Apologize for asking many questions, hope you could advise and assist me. Thank you!
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Is it because my “Tag” template page is blank? (Editor > Template > Tag), I tried to add a ‘blog post’ block in the Tag page for testing but it will show fixed blog posts for all tags, how could I set it?
Right, you will need a different block in this case, the Query Loop block. It will display a list of blog posts (not a single post) and on a template page like the one you created for tags, WordPress will fill the page with filtered content.
We cover in more detail how to use the Query Loop in the last demo on this webinar:
Cheers!
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