wordpress tags - can't get them to show up at all!

I've been using the old Wordpress + Ultimate Tag Warrior and just upgraded, and had to get rid of UTW. I know that Wordpress now has built in tags, but they are not working whatsoever....

To show tags on a live page, I used:

<?php the_tags(‘before’, ’separator’, ‘after’); ?>

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...as seen on a tutorial I found...and for the tag cloud:

<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=9&largest=22&number=30&orderby=count'); ?>

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When I save and view the page, it just doesn't show anything at all. I don't get it. I've been googling tutorials for this and they all say the same thing. What's happening?! All of the tags are correctly set on the posts...

 

you must use the latest wordpress. it must be 2.3+
and your theme must be capable of tags.

 

Thanks, but the theme has to be capable of tags? Shouldn't it work no matter what, since it's part of the Wordpress hard coding?

 

Try out the Configurable Tag Cloud. It is very good, simple and easily customizable as a widget. If you combine it with the Simple Tags plugin, you then are the Ultimate Tag Warrior

 

Nice one! Can be useful sometimes. And nope some skins may not have clouds by itself.

 

robo, thanks for those great suggestions!!

 

avec plaisir

 

This is the code I use to display tags on my WordPress themes:

<?php if ( function_exists('wp_tag_cloud') ) : ?>
<p>
<?php the_tags(); ?>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>

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It doesn't require any plugins and will work on any WordPress blog - provided you're using WP v2.3 and above, that is.