I currently have a custom select query but I can not access the tags using the_tags $hdqry = "SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts WHERE wp_posts.post_password = '' AND wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND wp_posts.ID > 10000 ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 5"; //$hdqry = "SELECT wp_posts.ID, wp_posts.post_title FROM wp_posts WHERE wp_posts.post_password = '' AND wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 5"; $myhd = $wpdb->get_results($hdqry); foreach($myhd as $hd) : setup_postdata($myhd); global $wp_query; $wp_query->in_the_loop = true; $title = $hd->post_title; ?> <a href="<?php echo $hd->guid; ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php echo $title; ?>"><?php echo $title; ?></a> <?php echo $hd->post_content; ?> <?php if ( function_exists('the_tags') ) { the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', ''); } else { echo "Error:"; } ?> <?php endforeach; ?> PHP: