UTW Theme Compatibility Thing will allow the UTW template tags in existing themes to work with the native tag store in Wordpress.
To Download
http://www.neato.co.nz/plugins/UTWRenderThing.zip has the latest version.
To Install
Copy the plugin to your plugins folder
Disable UTW, then enable this plugin (The two plugins share function names, so cannot run simulateously)
If you’re using icons in your formatting, there are a couple of extra steps.
Leave the UTW plugin folder on your webserver
Go to the Options > UTW Render Thing page, and enter a value for Base URL for Icons.
To Use
This plugin provides the functionality that the UTW_Show… functions in Ultimate Tag Warrior used to provide; except using the tags stored in Wordpress. The formatting documentation for UTW remains largely the same for UTW-TCT (:
Thursday 1 November, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
Thanks a lot. One thing that kept me from upgrading to 2.3 was that I was using Weighted Bars Graphs on my Archive page.
Thursday 1 November, 2007 @ 11:45 pm
[...] 6. Man konvertiere die UTW-Tags in die Wordpress-eigenen Tags und installiere ein zusätzliches Plugin, damit das eigene Blog, welches UTW eingebaut hat, zumindest optisch wieder normal aussieht. [...]
Friday 2 November, 2007 @ 2:40 am
WP plugin: UTWテンプレートタグを WP2.3 で使う – UTW Theme Compatibility Thing…
WordPress 2.3 コアのタグ機能で付けたタグを、Ultimate Tag Warrior の ……
Sunday 4 November, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! It saved my Squible Theme!!!!
Big hug!!!!!
Monday 5 November, 2007 @ 8:16 am
Great idea, I’m sure there are a ton of people who used UTW extensively in their themes like me and this will make life much easier.
One thing, not really a bug, but I thought you might be interested: around line 341 or so, you’ve got this:
$weight = $tag->count / $maxtag;
If $max_tag happens to be zero, you’ll get a divide by zero error. Might not be a very likely case, but I ran into it on a blog with no tags yet. Thanks again for you great plugins.
Monday 5 November, 2007 @ 1:02 pm
As always, thanks, Christine!
I’m having one problem, though: with “UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost(”commalisticons”)”, I end up with something like “tag1 %icons%, tag2 %icons” showing up in my blog page. I’ve changed the Render options base URL several different ways, including the logical one (/wp-content/plugins/UltimateTagWarrior) to no avail.
Any ideas as to what stupid thing have I done wrong now?
Tuesday 6 November, 2007 @ 7:56 am
[...] Unbeknownst to many, I was one of the lucky few to test drive Christine from the Internet’s shiny new Thing before it was publicly released. The recently released UTW Theme Compatibility Thing (UTW-TCT) is now publicly available. Finally. I’ve been itching to write about this Thing since Christine let me play with it. But of course, it has to do what it was supposed to do before the masses sink their teeth into it. [...]
Tuesday 6 November, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
Thanks! Should this fix the tag search? ala http://www.neato.co.nz/tag-search-experimental ?
Tuesday 6 November, 2007 @ 5:58 pm
Andy,
Ooh. Not just at the moment, unfortunately – that uses all sorts of other UTW stuff on the back end for retrieval, and I haven’t done the magic with that just yet.
That said, I have started looking at its replacement…
Wednesday 7 November, 2007 @ 7:07 pm
[...] Ultimate Tag Warrior deaktiviert, da inkompatibel. Dafür UTW Theme Compatibility Thing installiert, damit mein Theme weiterhin noch vollständig funktioniert. [...]
Sunday 11 November, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
[...] it means that you need to upgrade your sitemap plugin. Now the biggest change surely was the new native tagging system. I have been a big fan of UltimateTagWarrior but now 2.3 has native tag integration. (Yay! Took how long?) The import was straight forward to do from the management interface. But of course I had to adjust my theme that depended on the UTW functions. The good new is Christine Davis (the author of UTW) provided a plugin that serves as a compatibility layer. So you can keep using the UTW syntax and the plugin calls are mapped to the native tagging system. (Also grab the tag management plugin!) Unfortunately it’s still beta and I had to change the _getRelatedTags() function to return an empty array if no tags were given. [...]
Monday 12 November, 2007 @ 4:03 am
Hi Christine,
thanks for the update! i have a problem. i use
in my template but nothing shows up. i have wp 2.3.1 disabled UTW and activated tis plugin.
same is when i use
if (is_tag()) { UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet(’tagsettextonly’); } etc. nothing comes up
thank you!
Monday 12 November, 2007 @ 4:04 am
oups, i had php tags in my comment. again, i mean when i use
UTW_ShowWeightedTagSet(”sizedtagcloud”)
nothing comes up
Tuesday 20 November, 2007 @ 11:32 pm
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Thursday 29 November, 2007 @ 4:42 am
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Saturday 1 December, 2007 @ 10:20 am
Thanks a lot for this plugin! It’s a great way to migrate to WP’s native tag store.
Sunday 2 December, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
[...] Heute werde ich auf die neueste Wordpress-Version updaten. Ich bin mal gespannt, ich erwarte eigentlich, dass mir einiges um die Ohren fliegen wird, insbesondere die Darstellung und die Verwaltung der Tags. Aber Christine von neato.co.nz, die Autorin des grossartigen UTW-Plugins, was sich bislang hier um die Tags kümmert, aber nicht mit Wordpress 2.3.x kompatibel ist, hat nun ein UTW Theme Compatibility Thing Plugin geschrieben, was die Tempate-Tags von UTW mit dem neuen Taxonomy-System von Wordpress verbindet – damit ist für mich nun die Zeit gekommen, mich an die Umbauarbeit zu machen. [...]
Monday 3 December, 2007 @ 12:05 am
Hi Christine,
again many thanks for the plugin! :-)
There seems to be a problem in combination with the wp-cache plugin – once the cache is activated, all UTW functions return empty contents…
Monday 3 December, 2007 @ 12:15 am
errrrr, forget my previous post. everything works fine now.
Monday 3 December, 2007 @ 12:22 am
… but the
UTW_ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost(”posthtmllist”)
returns a
and the a list of related post is shown. :-/
Monday 3 December, 2007 @ 12:33 am
sorry for the comment-flood…
I did a
print_r($tags)at the line 561 mentioned above and it showed that $tags is empty, so the next foreach(…) loop returns the error.I added a
if( is_array($tags))...(/if)around the foreach loop, and now the warning is gone.Monday 3 December, 2007 @ 12:41 am
arghhh… ok, this is my last comment today, I promise :-)
The
UTW_ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost(”posthtmllist”)does not work at all (maybe due to the $tags being empty?) – it always shows the 5 latest post where the related posts should be.I will dig around some more and if I find something, I’ll let you know.
Monday 3 December, 2007 @ 12:55 am
ok, I think I found it: to fill
$tags, you useget_the_tags()(on line 26), but according to the wordpress codex this has to be done inside the loop. in my theme, theUTW_ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost()function is called in the sidebar – outside the loop – so$tagswill be empty.Thursday 6 December, 2007 @ 7:15 am
[...] But I have to say goodbye to Ultimate Tag Warrior (well, not really, I hear there’s a UTW hack compatible with WordPress 2.3), because, as in all platforms, the best third party features eventually get implemented by the parent company. I recommending reading, How to Switch from Ultimate Tag Warrior to WordPress 2.3 Tagging, if you currently use Ultimate Tag Warrior and are upgrading to 2.3. I still had errors and installed UTW Theme Compatibility Thing but it did not work for me. For my related posts, I installed WordPress 2.3 Related Posts Plugin, since I couldn’t get UTW’s related posts tag to work. [...]
Thursday 6 December, 2007 @ 9:28 am
[...] But I have to say goodbye to Ultimate Tag Warrior (well, not really, I hear there’s a UTW hack compatible with WordPress 2.3), because, as in all platforms, the best third party features eventually get implemented by the parent company. I recommending reading, How to Switch from Ultimate Tag Warrior to WordPress 2.3 Tagging, if you currently use Ultimate Tag Warrior and are upgrading to 2.3. I still had errors and installed UTW Theme Compatibility Thing but it did not work for me in listed related posts. For my related posts, I installed WordPress 2.3 Related Posts Plugin, since I couldn’t get UTW’s related posts tag to work. [...]
Monday 10 December, 2007 @ 7:42 am
How less perfect the world is if UTW isn’t working properly…
I installed the UTW Theme Compatibility Thing for a WP 2.3.1 install, and a call like UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical(”coloredsizedtagcloud”,”",”30″) that used to produce a really pretty tag cloud using UTW (good size variation between the tags) now produces one that looks a lot like a tag cloud produced using the built-in WP functions (ie, very little size variation). Also, changing the font sizes in UTW Render Options doesn’t produce any changes in the tag cloud, even increasing the most popular font size 10X, but changing the font colors does produce a change in the tag cloud.
Any thoughts?
Sunday 13 January, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Hi Thanks for the plugin. One of my readers emailed me this error. Can you help?
<meta name=”keywords” content=”
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_the_tags() in /home/johanhor/public_html/helpmetoblog/wp-content/plugins/UTWRenderThing.php on line 18
Monday 14 January, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
Hey Christine:
First, thank you so much for the Many Many years with UTW…I love(d) it. In fact, because UTW broke in WP 2.3, I have refused to upgrade…until now. While there are many many items that I miss, I really wanted my “weightedlongtailvertical” to work…and well it didn’t. Even with this RenderThing. So, I…sorry…hacked it.
I replaced:
$format = str_replace(’%tagrelweightint%’, ceil($weight), $format);
with:
$format = str_replace(’%tagrelweightint%’, ($weight*100), $format);
…and that seemed to do the trick. I know it’s ugly, but it worked.
Hope all is well with you in the new year.
Your loyal follower,
Jerry
Wednesday 16 January, 2008 @ 12:14 am
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Friday 18 January, 2008 @ 1:24 am
I use wordpress 2.3.2 with UTG, my tag cloud displays well BUT the pages are now all returning a 404 error. Does it fix this problem?
Saturday 19 January, 2008 @ 4:47 am
[...] 原Ultimate Tag Warrior替代工具：Embedded Tag Thing：在正文中以【tag】【/tag】形式嵌入Tag。 （使用时将【】替换为[]）Inline Tag Thing：不进入后台，在日志中直接添加或删除Tag。Tag Managing Thing：提供方便的Tag管理功能。UTW Compatibility Thing：提供原UTW中所含的全部函数。以上几款插件均出自UTW作者之手。大家知道，从WP 2.3开始取消了对UTW的支持，强制使用WP的原生Tag，然而WP的原生Tag功能实在太弱。通过这几款插件，可以实现UTW的大部分功能。推荐原UTW用户安装使用。 [...]
Thursday 24 January, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
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Thursday 31 January, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
I can confirm everything frisco said, with one addition. The generated tag cloud is limited to 30 tags but they’re not the tags that have been used most often. In other words, the “Weighted” in UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical isn’t working :)
So my tag cloud is just alphabetically displaying the first 50 (in my case) tags it finds (instead of top 50), and adjusting the font-size according to how many times each tag has been used.
Friday 1 February, 2008 @ 6:24 am
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Wednesday 20 February, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
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Saturday 23 February, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
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Thursday 6 March, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Wow thanks. I thought I was going to lose UTW.
I wont be able to use all of the old tags that I have already entered with the old UTW will I?
Also, no matter how I change the font size in the manage area, the font is huge. Well bigger than I would like. I would like it Least popular 12 px, Most popular 16 px Its just not working out that way.
any ideas?
Tuesday 11 March, 2008 @ 6:05 am
Hi Christine
I get the following error after installing the UTW plug in.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/remove/public_html/wp-content/plugins/UTWRenderThing/UTWRenderThing.php on line 524
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/remove/public_html/wp-content/plugins/UTWRenderThing/UTWRenderThing.php on line 561
Are there any details on what I need to do to fix this? I have no experience with code so please make it easy to understand!
Thanks a lot
Lyndsay
Thursday 13 March, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
Hey this sure looks intresting. I’ll check it out. I just started experimenting with wordpress and bumb into your website. You’ve a nice website, keep up the good work! :)
Monday 24 March, 2008 @ 8:18 am
Hi Christine
Thanks for this great plugin, I finally upgraded to 2.3 and thanks to this plugin I can still use UTW. Kewl.
I think there’s a small bug, though, as I can’t alter the size of the tags in the cloud. No matter what I specify, it’s always 22 pts for the largest one and 8pts for the smallest.
Anyway, keep up the good work and good luck with all your future projects!
Thursday 27 March, 2008 @ 9:54 pm
Christine: I haven’t upgraded WP in quite a while & I’ve just upgraded to 2.5. I see UTW is no longer supported. I’ve tried using the new default tag system in WP, but my tags aren’t displaying at the bottom of my published posts like they used to w. UTW. How do I retain this feature? Will this plugin do that for me?
Thursday 3 April, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Thanks for this wonderful plug-in.
Will it be update for wordpress 2.5 ? Is there any road map?
Sunday 27 April, 2008 @ 5:20 am
[...] not offered by the core WP install. So the plugin’s author Christine introduced a new plugin, UTW Theme Compatibility Thing, which offers all of the old UTW template functions, but uses WP’s native tagging system as [...]
Saturday 3 May, 2008 @ 3:57 am
I am getting the same error after upgrading to WP 2.5.1
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/contribu/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/UTWRenderThing/UTWRenderThing.php on line 561
The script is actually working but the error shows at the very Beginning.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
:-)
Saturday 10 May, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
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Tuesday 10 June, 2008 @ 2:39 am
This is a great post and have kept it in my diary. Will continue to read it as i’m very new to a lot of the points you mention!
Thanks though, i’m glad some people share good stuff like this!
Thursday 12 June, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
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Wednesday 9 July, 2008 @ 7:31 am
I am getting the same error like Marcos
Saturday 12 July, 2008 @ 4:15 am
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Wednesday 16 July, 2008 @ 2:57 pm
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Sunday 17 August, 2008 @ 2:38 am
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Saturday 23 August, 2008 @ 8:31 am
Webrocker – thanks for your comments. They helped sort my problem.
Saturday 6 September, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Such a shame I couldn’t use this plugin. I have just of heard of it and read some glowing reviews but alas, my wordpress is in version 2.6!
Thursday 23 October, 2008 @ 7:53 pm
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Tuesday 11 November, 2008 @ 5:45 am
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Wednesday 1 July, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
I upgraded my WordPress blog to WP 2.8 from old WP 2.0.3 and tryed to
activate UTW 3.14 and it fails, then I installed the UTW Them Compatibility Thing and
it activates. I added a WordPress tag to a post updated the post but don’t see
the tags. I’m using a custom them, so I switched the theme to the default theme
and I see the tags for the post.
The tags showed up fine when on WP 2.0.3. Do you know what I’m doing wrong?
Thank,
Glenn
Monday 27 July, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
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