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Check out Rhymed Code’s Custom Field GUI. It’s the easiest way to add extra fields to the post screen that I’ve found.

To get the values use Scott’s Get Custom Fields plugin.

The problem is that the posts from each separate install will have used the same ID numbers. And since the ID field requires unique values you’ll get errors importing. Maybe someone could write a script or query to bump ID’s in one database up by 1000 or so.

This will create a problem for bookmarks if you’re not using permalinks.

When I validate your page it complains document type does not allow element “li” here; missing one of “ul”, “ol”, “menu”, “dir” start-tag. for your sidebar links. So somewhere the lists are getting messed up. You’ll need to go through and correct this first because all kinds of wonky things happy when html isn’t correctly closed.

Once you’ve done that you’ll be able to control the spacing between list items with something like:
ul li { margin-bottom: 12px; }

By controlling the spacing that way you won’t need the <br /> tags either.

Coolio.

Can we get a link to your test site? That’ll help us troubleshoot.

I’m off for the night but I’ll check back tomorrow to see if a solution has been posted.

Suh-weet.

This plugin is a huge step up for WP’s custom fields and is going to save me some major time. Thanks Joshua!

If you really want to use Bunny’s tags then make the following change in bunnys-tags.php. Replace the function get_bunny_tags_list (lines 115-130 ish) with this:


// prepare the formatted list of tags -- this is what you mess with if your custom field values aren't formatted like described in the instructions
function get_bunny_tags_list($before, $after, $separator)
{
global $bunny_strict;

$technorati_tags=get_bunny_tags(' ', 'tags');
$label="Tags";
if(empty($technorati_tags)&&!$bunny_strict)
{
$technorati_tags=get_bunny_tags(', ', 'keywords');
$label="Keywords";
}
if (empty($technorati_tags)) {
$technorati_tags_list="No Tags";
return($technorati_tags_list);
} else {
$technorati_tags_list=output_bunny_tags($technorati_tags, $before, $after, $separator);
return($technorati_tags_list);
}
}

It’s a quick fix. If there are no tags found then it returns the phrase ‘No Tags’. You can change this in the code and also include any html you want (for instance, <p class="tags">No Tags</p>).

Don’t forget if you ever upgrade Bunny’s Tags you’ll lose this!

Nice Beel. Answering the problem without seeing the full code must moves you up a level!