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Can you explain a little more what you are trying to do?

Never mind, I found another way to achieve what I want.

But, for your idea, what I preferred is that when somebody clicks on the tag, he/she will see to the tag description instead of a list of posts in which the tag is used. But that’s not possible.

So, what I did is:

– I created a new post category from which I make the tag map;

Then it works fine. But, when I would like to show a short description (extracted from the tag) it does not show. Also there is no read more.

The shortcode I use is:

[mctagmap show_pages=no show_posts= yes from_category=wordpress-index descriptions=yes more=Lees verder columns=1 width=100%]

The tag map shows as expected but:

– there are no descriptions;
– there is no “Read More” ;

And is it correct that it uses the post title to show in the tag map, instead of the tag used with the post ?

Thanks !

Well in your shortcode you are telling it to show posts (show_posts=yes). Before I set up a local test try this shortcode:

[mctagmap from_category="wordpress-index" descriptions="yes" more="Lees verder" columns="1" width="100%"]

although off hand (it’s been a while) I’m not 100% from_category will work but it’s a start.

Also note the quotes in my shortcode. Yours didn’t have them and not sure if that’s just a typo or not.

If this doesn’t work can you send a link to the page you are working on?

Thanks for your reply.

The from_category is working just great and yes, I am using quotes.

What I would like to do is:

– show post
– from category
– show the excerpt

That is working for tags and pages, but not for post. Since the show_post has not an option like with show_pages / page_excerpt.

Is that doable ?

Thanks anyway for your fast reply.

Hi Tug,

I figured it out…

In your mctagma_functions.php, I’ve added the following lines (at line 700, the part that shows the descriptions):

if($show_posts == “yes” && $page_excerpt == “yes”) {
$mctagmap_description = ‘<span class=”tagDescription”>’ . $pex. ‘</span>’; }

Then just use the shortcode with:

show_posts=”yes” and page_excerpt=”yes”

Then it works.

My complete shortcode then looks like:

[mctagmap show_posts=”yes” page_excerpt=”yes” from_category=”wordpress-index” show_navigation=”yes” group_numbers=”yes” columns=”1″ width=”100%”]

Thanks, great plugin !

oh, nice. I’ll test it out and see if I should add it into the core.

You’re welcome and thanks again for this great plugin !

Turns out the show_posts/show_pages check in my code wasn’t even needed. I removed it from version 15.0.4. Thanks for the heads up on this.

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