Less than a month ago WordPress version 2.9 rolled out. It came with some fancy new features and a few bug fixes. Though it also broke a few things. One of the best plugins for WP around is called “Simple Tags”.
Simple Tags helps you put tags on your posts or pages with more ease. It has auto-complete and tag searching. Meaning that it can find tags for you via Yahoo or ‘the web’ or even search through your own tags. Very neat plugin and a must have for the serious blogger.
The problem is that Simple Tags is not made to work with WordPress 2.9 … yet. So, we have to work around it. and it’s a very simple work around.
All you have to do is change one small line of code. Follow these steps and you’ll have Simple Tags working with WP 2.9 in no time at all.
- Click on “Plugins” from the left menu in the admin panel in WP. Then click on “Editor“:
- From the top right of this page, where it says “Select plugin to edit” select ‘Simple Tags’ and click edit:
… You might have to scroll to find it, depending on how many plugins you have installed. - Make sure “simple-tags/simple-tags.php” is highlighted from the right file menu:
- On this file; near the middle you will see something like the following code:
- All you need to do is add the following code at in between the parenthesis:
- And it will look like this after you are finished:
- Save the file by clicking “Update file” at the bottom.
- Problem solved!
// Check version.
global $wp_version;
if ( strpos($wp_version, '2.7') !== false || strpos($wp_version, '2.8') !== false ) {
require(dirname(__FILE__).'/2.7/simple-tags.client.php');
|| strpos($wp_version, '2.9') !== false
if ( strpos($wp_version, '2.7') !== false || strpos($wp_version, '2.8') !== false || strpos($wp_version, '2.9') !== false )
The original post where I got this idea from is here. Thanks dude!
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thanks, seems to have worked for me as well