Tags in sidebar
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Hey everyone!
I was wondering how to show ALL your tags in the sidebar (not the tag cloud, which shows the popular ones. )
Please note: I am quite illiterate with CSS and all that, so I would ask for a simple answer :)
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Can you please post the complete url of your wp.COM blog so to be sure you get the appropriate answers? You can also link your user name so you don’t have to post it every time you ask a question in the forums, just follow the directions here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1
Doing a search in the support documents I found this http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/ and it should help you with figuring out how to put your tags in the sidebar the way you want if you have a wp.COM blog.
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http://whichonedosent.wordpress.com
Thanks for the reply. The page was helpful.
But I do not think I can get what I want; I want all tags to show up on my sidebar (categories are quite useless to me). A bit like in blogger. However, I prefer to write in wordpress…let’s see what I can make of these…
Thanks you anyway. It’s appreciated :)
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You know someone else might have better information so definately check back and maybe do a search of the forums to see if you can find some sort of way to do exactly what you want. :)
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The tag cloud displays up to 45 tags. There’s no way to display more than those automatically. You’d need to get the URLs of your tag pages (for example http://whichonedosent.wordpress.com/tag/usernames/ ) and create links to them in Links > Add New, or create links to them in a text widget: not worth the trouble.
The categories widget, on the other hand, displays all your categories, regardless of number. Why do you think categories are useless to you?
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<blockquotw> Why do you think categories are useless to you?
I am waiting to hear an answer to panaghiotisadam’s question as well, because search engines treat categories and tags in exactly the same way. They do NOT differentiate been the two iw. categories and tags in any way.
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Tags are similar to categories, but they are generally used to describe your post in more detail.
Categories allowed for a broad grouping of post topics, but when you want to describe a post in more specific terms you use tags as well as categories.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#the-difference-between-categories-and-tagsThere is no difference between the two in terms of how search engines treat categories and tags.
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Thank you all for the replies.
After reading them, I conclude that it is not the categories which are useless to me…the tags are…haha….
I want to post quite randomly, a bit like: sometimes on ‘apples’ and sometimes on ‘writing’…I would very scarcely write on a same category, so since tags summarises a topic more than a category…I preferred the tags..and to fit everything , I wanted all my tags to show up in my sidebar…
But I have an idea now…I will just stop using tags and treat categories just like it. That will solve the problem :) …so…tags are quite useless to me now… hahaha.
Thank you everyone :)
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I’m looking for help. I’m basically computer literate, but not particular “blog” literate. I have been trying to use the “Post Tags” box on the dashboard to the right of my post. I have typed in three or four tags and hit the “add” button, but my blog stats still say that there are zero tags on that post. I am trying to add tags to a couple of old posts, and the instructions I read said I could do it that way. I even logged out and then back in, just in case it waited until I came on again to show the change. No difference Anybody have suggestions? Thanks.
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Did you click “Update” in the Publish Module after you clicked the “add” tag button? If you didn’t that would explain why the tags aren’t there. The post has to be published before they appear.
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