Have you ever wanted to know how to add Tags to each Post within your WordPress theme? If you theme does not have it built-in, there is no need for a plugin, so please take a moment to look this quick tutorial over because with just a bit of understanding of what is going on, you can look like a master at PHP and developing.

There are many ways to do the following steps (I actually prefer using FTP, but I am going to assume in this tutorial that you do not know what FTP means, and will show you how to do everything within the WordPress Dashboard.

In this example I am going to use the really clean coded free WordPress theme called Noteblog. Nicely coded, and generally speaking fast loading theme.

Step #1: Login to WordPress. If you do not know how to do this, stop and contact somebody that can help you – I am likely available if you contact me…

Step #2: Are you logged into your WordPress Dashboard now? Yes? Awesomesauce!

Go to the left navigation and look for

Appearance >> Editor

From there on the Right side of the screen look for

template-parts

Click on it and you will see a few files drop down under it. Look for

content.php

Step #3: Here’s where the magic happens, so pay attention.

Look for the code at the bottom that says

</div<!-- .enter-content -->
</article><!-- #post-## -->

At that point you will be adding some very common code between

</div><!-- .entry-content -->

and

</article><!-- #post-## -->

to actually make tags display on your Posts, and be SEO ready.

So the default method of the WordPress core code (which can be found at the WordPress Codex here)

the_tags

code would look something like this:

 </div><!-- .entry-content -->
 <p><?php the_tags(); ?></p>
</article><!-- #post-## -->

and would display like the following on your site:

Don’t forget to look at the many variations of how you can use the_tags function, and you can really impress your friends and family.