Create a Dropdown List of Tags
One of the options on the default category widget is to display it as a dropdown. When a category is selected, user is immediately redirected to the category archive page.
This functionality is provided by the wp_dropdown_categories function. Surprisingly, this same function can be used to display a list of tags as well (which, design-wise, seems to be a better alternative than a tag cloud).
Here’s the code, modified from the example available on the Codex page:
<li id="categories"> <h2><?php _e('Posts by Tags'); ?></h2> <form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" method="get"> <div> <?php $select = wp_dropdown_categories('taxonomy=post_tag&show_option_none=Select tag&show_count=1&orderby=name&echo=0'); $select = preg_replace("#<select([^>]*)>#", "<select$1 onchange='return this.form.submit()'>", $select); echo $select; ?> <noscript><div><input type="submit" value="View" /></div></noscript> </div></form> </li> |
Above, note the taxonomy=post_tag parameter that tells the function to generate a list of tags. If you have your own taxonomy, you can use that too. Pretty nifty!
