A plugin to show post tags in a widget

Question

I'm looking to show the tags of a post within a widget. I know this is hard because it's outside of the loop, but has it been done, is there one available?

Thanks for any assistance.

Hudson

Answer 1

Its not very hard actually, wordpress supports multiple loops and query's.

The best way to create a secondary (or more) loop is to make an instance of WP Query, http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Using that you can make a simple query that gets the posts tags using wp_get_post_tags http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_tags

Then you would throw the code into a widget, http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API.

Answer 2

I believe this plugin does exactly what you're looking for: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nktagcloud/

Hope this helps! Michelle

Answer 3

Tags can be shown outside the Post loop using the global functions.

Step 1 : Get a PHP Code Widget (this solved many problems)

Step 2 : Place the Code <?php the_tags(); ?> in widget and Save.

Check Tags Documentation to tweak display order.

All done just rock and roll.