October 1st, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

I finally got my upgrade to Word­Press straight­ened out (do your­self a favor and upgrade the Google XML sitemaps and Sim­i­lar Posts plu­g­ins), but I was a little dis­ap­pointed with the new Tag Sup­port. It’s a big improve­ment over the old built-​in tag sup­port, but I wish they’d have worked toward fea­ture parity with Ulti­mate­Tag­War­rior. To bring back some of the old fea­tures like tag man­age­ment and auto­mated tag gen­er­a­tion, try out Christine’s Word­Press Things.

One thing that is still miss­ing is the abil­ity to output a plain list of tags. Word­Press assumes that if you want tags, you want those tags to be links. I, how­ever, just want plain old text some­times. So I hacked around in the Word­Press code and made my very first (sorry excuse for a) plugin: PlainTags.

I’m hoping not to have to main­tain this plugin for very long, as this really ought to be part of the Word­Press core code. In fact, there may be a sim­pler way to do what I want, but if there is, I couldn’t find it. Either way, enjoy this plugin, and let me know if it gives you any problems.

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