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Help with wordpress simple tags plugin needed

I'm trying to use the Simple Tags plugin on my wordpress site:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/

Installed and activated fine.

I put: [st_tag_cloud] in my innerWideSidebar.php where I want it to appear. All I get on the page is the text: [st_tag_cloud], no tag cloud.

I read somewhere that shortcode can not be used in sidebars, so I got a plug in that is supposed to enable it in sidebars, but that didn't help. Also tried putting the [st_tag_cloud] in single.php just under the post, to see if it being on the sidebar was the problem. Same thing there. I just get the text: [st_tag_cloud].

I'm fairly new at wp and how this all works. What am I missing here?

Thanks for any help, Chris

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Chris Andrews

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Thank you Dzynit.

I do have that checkbox checked, but for some reason it's not working.

I'd like to use the shortcode, as I have some custom php in that sidebar. Any other ideas as to why it might not be working?

The other thing I am trying to do it to limit it to just the tags related to that page (that I put in the tags box when adding a new post). The goal is to help focus adsense to improve ad relevancy. Do you know if that is possible? I may need a different plugin. Would appreciate your thoughts on that, Chris

Heather Ritchey

Have you tried using this call: <?php st_the_tags(); ?>

There's documentation on it here:
http://redmine.beapi.fr/projects/simple-tags/wiki/St_the_tags%28%29

Chris Andrews

ASKER

I also am trying 'better tag cloud', as I found it has a shortcode for showing tags from a single post, [nktagcloud single=yes] ... but it also doesn't parse, just shows that as actual text.

Reading up on the <?php st_the_tags(); ?> right now...

Chris Andrews

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ah, got it, I can't 'just' use the shortcode. I had to do:

if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) {
echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( 'single=yes&separator= - &categories=no' );
}

Thanks for all your help. You showed me one thing that lead to another and an answer ;)