WordPress Tip #1 – Adding Post Tags to Your WordPress Theme’s Blog Posts

Are your WordPress post tags not working? Like many WordPress users, you may have found that your WordPress theme has not been set up to display post tags in a single blog post.

Showing the post tag in your theme’s blog posts has 2 benefits:

• Site Searches – Using post tags in your blog will allow your users to find articles by entering keywords into the search feature of your blog.
• Search Engine Optimization – Adding post tags that are keywords used in each blog post will help increase the keyword density of each article.

Instructions

Note: It is highly recommended that you save a backup copy of any file before editing.

Step 1 – Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 – Go to Appearance > Editor.
Step 3 – From the list of pages on the right, click on “Single Post” (single.php).
Step 4 – Once single.php has loaded in the editor, click anywhere in the box and do a CTRL+F to perform a search (Apple+F for Apple Users).
Step 5 – In the browser search box, type “php the_content” (no quotes) and click find/enter. If your theme is using the content tag, it should find and highlight it in the editor.
Step 6 – Create a new line by placing your mouse cursor and pressing enter after the following code:

<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php the_tags('Tags: <b>', ', ', '</b><br />'); ?>

Follow Pete in this short video as he explains the WordPress Dashboard. This is a great video for beginners that have never logged in to the WordPress Dashboard. Short & Easy! Only 3:53!