[wp-testers] getting a tag name w/o the loop

[DD32]

Seems your right, It simply displays "Posts Tagged ‘’" for me too on the  
default theme.

Looks like we're in need of a fair few new tag template functions and  
modifications to the current tag cloud.

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:56:08 +1000, Paul Stamatiou <p at pstam.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info. Unfortunately single_cat_tag() doesn't output
> anything for me. As for the tag cloud, I had converted all of my
> categories to tags (I wont run categories anymore) and just wanted to
> exclude the 'uncategorized' tag from the cloud. The uncategorized tag
> also 404s so I have no idea what is even uncategorized anymore.
>
> This is the top of my theloop.php, fairly similar to the code you posted:
>
> <?php if(have_posts()){
> 	$post = $posts[0];
> 	if(!is_single() && !is_home() or is_paged()){?>
> 	<div class="pagetitle">
> 		<h2>
> 		
> 		<?php if (is_tag()) { ?>
> 		Posts tagged '<?php single_cat_title(); ?>'
> 	
> 		<?php } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
> 		Archive for <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?>
>
>
> On 8/9/07, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:59:40 +1000, Paul Stamatiou <p at pstam.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I just co'd trunk, converted my categories to tags and am
>> > converting my theme to support tags. I'm trying to find out how to get
>> > a tag name without it being in the loop.
>> >
>> > For example, on a page like http://paulstamatiou.com/tags/news/, I
>> > would have "posts in the <tagname> tag". I have gone through
>> > category-template.php and tried several tag functions without luck. Is
>> > this possible without needing to be in the loop. Basically I'm trying
>> > to find a replacement for what I used to use:
>> >
>> >  if (is_category()) { ?>
>> > Posts in the '<?php echo single_cat_title(); ?>' category
>>
>> You'd still use that, Sounds stupid, but seems thats the way its done,
>>  From the default theme: archive.php
>>   <?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
>>         <h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for the &#8216;<?php  
>> single_cat_title();
>> ?>&#8217; Category</h2>
>>    <?php /* If this is a tag archive */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?>
>>         <h2 class="pagetitle">Posts Tagged &#8216;<?php  
>> single_cat_title();
>> ?>&#8217;</h2>
>>
>> > Also, slightly unrelated, I can't seem to get
>> > wp_tag_cloud('exclude=uncategorized') to exclude 'uncategorized'.
>>
>> I think it excludes by ID rather than by name.., But looking at it, it
>> doesnt seem it actually references to exclude anywhere anyway, So you  
>> cant
>> exclude it.
>> What were you hoping to do here? Exclude the tag 'uncategorized' from
>> showing up? excluding tags on posts in the category 'uncategorized'?
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