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Tag Description Plugin For WordPress

Filed under: Work — Bryan on Mar 28th, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

This has been added in 2.8! Don’t install this if you have 2.8! Read this instead.

This little plug-in adds a fancy little description field to the “Edit Tag” pane in WordPress. It also adds a function called single_tag_description(); that does just that but only on the tag page. Not really sure why the tag description isn’t available by default, seems like it would be pretty useful. Basically, you can describe your tags and echo that description on each tag page with the above function; pretty simple!

Please enjoy and note that some of the code came from a thread I read on WordPress.org, but some of it came from extracting similar core code, I just made it into a WordPress plugin. Download it now.

9 Comments »
  1. Bryan, yiu read my mind. That’s exactly what I need for a project. Thanks!

    Comment by Fabio Assis — April 21, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
  2. thank you very much!
    It helps me a lot. this is my website about birds:
    http://niaolei.org.cn/tag/%E9%B9%A6%E9%B9%89

    Comment by cuckoo — May 2, 2009 @ 12:31 am
  3. Brian. Thank YOU!

    I am using your tag description plugin, to dynamically generate the meta descriptions for my tag pages (see source here: http://www.holymac.com.au/news/wolfmother). I’m not sure if there’s any other way to do that (???) but this method works.

    awesome work – thanks for releasing it.

    Comment by iamcracks — May 23, 2009 @ 2:26 am
  4. Great plugin Bryan! One question I have is if you have any plans to allow for tags in the description. Could be quite useful for sites that wanted to include an image thumbnail with the tag page.

    Comment by Andrew — June 5, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
  5. Woops, that comment of my was supposed to read “allow for image tags” I guess the comment box stripped out the html. Sorry if it was confusing.

    Comment by Andrew — June 5, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
  6. Thank you!Tag description helps a lot in SEO.

    Comment by ONS — June 5, 2009 @ 11:09 pm
  7. Definitely mega useful for SEO, I’ve been doing it manually so far. I’m seconding the vote for allowing HTML, I would like to add links.

    Comment by Mary-Ann — June 10, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
  8. I think this has been added in WordPress 2.8 … it’s about time.

    Comment by Randy — June 18, 2009 @ 10:46 am
  9. Link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/tag_description

    Comment by Randy — June 18, 2009 @ 10:47 am
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