get_posts won’t show the tags

  • Resolved dunkkan

    (@dunkkan)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m building a custom theme and in the homepage (index.php), I’m showing 4 posts from different categories.

    All is working OK with get_posts, the title and the content are shown as normal ; only the tags fail to appear.

    If I set up a conventional Loop, the tags show again.

    Here it is one of my loops, the others are ‘clons’ but changing the category :

    <?php
	 $posts = get_posts('category=6&numberposts=1');
	 foreach($posts as $post):
		setup_postdata($post);
	 ?>
	<?php the_title(); ?>
	<?php the_content(); ?>
	<?php the_tags(); ?>
	<?php endforeach; ?>

    I’ve tried to do the same through WP_query, with no results :

    <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1&cat=4'); ?>
	<?php if (have_posts()) : while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
	<?php the_title(); ?>
	<?php the_content(); ?>
	<?php the_tags(); ?>
	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    I have several times worked with both, get_posts and WP_query (even if I ignore their differences, which it could be cool to know), and I don’t remember any issue.

    Finally I tried to put a rewind_posts function, which I think it protects several Loops to ‘contaminate’ each other, but with no difference :

    <?php get_header(); rewind_posts(); ?>

    Thanks for any input if anybody have some idea.

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Hi

    Check down near the bottom of this thread – this might be useful to you

    http://www.nabble.com/Get-query-variables-and-tags-td21801063.html

    Thread Starter dunkkan

    (@dunkkan)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Hi stvwlf, thanks for that link, with this other thread, it gave me an idea of what was happening.

    Here’s my final code. It seems like I needed to specify the called post’s ID to acces to its tags.

    <?php
		 $posts = get_posts('category=4&numberposts=1');
		 foreach($posts as $post):
			setup_postdata($post);
		 ?>
		<?php the_title(); ?>
		<?php the_content(); ?>

		<!-- HERE IT COMES THE TRICKY PART -->

		<?php $posttags = get_the_tags($post->ID);
		if ($posttags) {
		foreach($posttags as $tag) {
		echo $tag->name . ' ';
		}
		}
		?>
		<?php endforeach; ?>

    It works the same with WP_query.

    By the way, does someone knows the main differences between WP_query and get_posts ? Which is quicker, or better ? why two functions ?

    Thread Starter dunkkan

    (@dunkkan)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    I’m looking now for a way to get the tags linking to its archive pages :/

    Thread Starter dunkkan

    (@dunkkan)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    <?php $posttags = get_the_tags($post->ID); if ($posttags) {
foreach($posttags as $tag) {
echo '<a href="';
echo get_tag_link($tag);
echo '">';
echo $tag->name . ' ';
echo '</a>';
}
}
?>

    This is working for me, but I’m suspicious ’cause it must be a cleaner mode to get it. Please don’t hesitate to make your remarks.

    Kate

    (@katendarcy)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Dunkkan: thanks for the info. Not sure what you meant by “a cleaner mode”, because this looks similar to the examples given from WordPress here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_the_tags

    Anyways, I wanted to be able to have it separated by commas, so I used this:

    <?php
$posttags = get_the_tags($post->ID);
if ($posttags) {
/*Define counter*/
$counter = 0;
  foreach($posttags as $tag) {
  /*Add to counter*/
  $counter++;
   echo '<a href="';
   echo get_tag_link($tag);
   echo '">';
   echo $tag->name;
   echo '</a>';
   /*If you're at the last tag, do nothing.  Otherwise, add a comma and a space.*/
   if(!($counter < count($posttags))){
    /*Do nothing*/
   }else{
    echo ', ';
   }
  }
}

?>

    Hope that helps someone else too! 😉 And, thanks again Dunkkan!

    alexo05

    (@alexo05)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks to you both, exactly what I was looking for!

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