Customize → Single post → Display post tags? On by default.
Under a post, above the comments, the theme prints the post’s tags as a row of links, labelled Tags.
A post with no tags prints nothing at all — no empty label, no gap.
Tags versus categories in this theme
They appear in different places, and it is worth knowing which is which:
| Where it appears | |
|---|---|
| Categories | The meta row — in the listing and above the post title |
| Tags | The strip under the post content |
That mirrors what they are for. A category says what section this belongs to, so it reads before the post as context. A tag says what else is like this, so it reads after the post as an invitation to keep going.
Using them well
Few categories, many tags. Five or six categories that describe the shape of your blog; tags as fine-grained as you like.
Do not duplicate. A tag with the same name as a category produces two archives covering the same posts, competing for the same search results.
Tags need to be reused to be worth anything. A tag used once is a dead-end archive with a single post on it. If you find yourself with hundreds of one-post tags, that is a signal to prune rather than a signal to tag harder.
Turning it off
Untick Display post tags?. The tags still exist and their archives still work — you have only removed the list from the bottom of the post.
Worth doing if you tag heavily for your own organisation rather than for readers, where twenty tags under a post is noise.
Styling
The tag list is part of the theme’s meta element, so it follows Design → Blog → Meta font and Meta color along with the meta row, comment metadata, and the date/author/terms blocks. They are the same line in different places, so they move together.
Related
- Meta position — where categories sit
- Author box