Attaching a tag to a new post

Click on “Choose from the most used tags” then click on the tag you want to use. Or is that what you’ve been doing?

That is what I have been doing. The program seems to attach a new tag with the same basic name, which is listed as a new tag in Post Tags, without just attaching the selected tag with its URL. That is not what I want. I just want to apply the selected tag from the “most used tags” to the post that I’m editing and waiting to “Update”.

It sounds like something is interfering with WP. Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

I deactivated the last plugin that I installed and made another attempt to attach a Post Tag from my current list of “most popular” tags (there are only 2) to the latest blog that I was trying to edit. It cited the tag on the post, but it was a new tag and not the one that I had previously attached to 6 other posts. I’m sure that this can’t be a theme-specific problem, because I previously attached my new tags to selected posts in my current theme. I don’t want to “add” a new tag. I want to attach a currently configured Post Tag to a new post that I am editing.I haven’t been able to find any instructions for doing that. What are the steps for doing that?

Deactivate ALL plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

Switch to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

If I deactivate ALL the plugins, and then do what I have been doing to attach the selected tag, and that works, and then re-activate all of the plugins one by one, how will I be able to tell which one caused the problem?

You need to test tag addition after each plugin reactivation.

Esmi, I really appreciate your efforts to help me with this process. Please just tell me, step by step, what you do to attach an old Post Tag to a Post that you are editing. I don’t want to add a new tag. I want to attach one of the “most used” tags to the blog that I am trying to edit. Thanks for your ongoing help.

Click on “Choose from the most used tags” then click on the tag you want to use.

Esmi, One of the two tags in the menu for “Choose from the most used tags” is this one named “a personal matter”. I clicked on it, selecting it as the tag that I want to add to the post that I am trying to edit. I then clicked the “Update” button to implement my selection. The process created a new tag named “a personal matter”, which is attached to my post, but it is not the most “used tag” that I selected. The dashboard then indicated that I had 3 tags instead of only the two that I had previously created. I don’t want two tags with the same name, one that is attached to 6 posts and one that is only attached to one post. I don’t know why WP is doing this, and apparently there isn’t any way to correct this. I give up. Thanks for your effort to help me.

Sirs!

Is it possible BuddyPress plugin cobflict?

I don’t have the BuddyPress plugin. Now the WP program has switched a couple of previously select Popular Post Tags on two posts to newly created tags with the same names. I didn’t make the switch. I don’t want two different tags with the same names on different posts. The operation for creating and applying tags to my posts seems to be all messed up. What can I do to correct it? If I just update WP from 2.9.2 to 3.0, will that correct these problems?

I just updated WP to the 3.0 version after I removed the duplicated Post Tags from the program. The new version cited the two tags that I had previously established and used on several posts. I opened the post edit page and selected a post to which I wanted to attach one of the Popular Post Tags. I selected the one entitled “current news topic” and hit the “Update” button. A tag with the name “current news topic” was attached to the post, but it was a new tag. It was not the same as the one in the Popular list. Now I have several posts with the tag “current news topic” with different configurations. I shouldn’t have two different tags with the same name in Post Tags. Why does this program do this? What can I do to just get the program to attach a selected tag from the Popular Post Tags to a particular post? I have been trying to fix this problem for several days now. I need some simple and complete instructions for fixing this problem. How does anyone get a tag from the Popular Post Tag list attached to a post?
My WP version is now 3.0 and my browser is Firefox 3.0.13.

Would the Simple Tags Plugin 1.8 solve this problem for me? There must be some code in the basic Tag Cloud file that is creating a new tag from a selected tag named in the Popular Post Tag list. I would like to avoid that action and just be able to attach a tag from the Popular list to another post. I would appreciate any specific help that anyone can give me regarding this matter.