Post tags

The tag list under an article, and when it is printed at all.

Appearance → Customize → Single Post → Show tags. On by default.

What it prints

A row under the article content, labelled Tags:, with each tag linking to its archive. Tags are printed in WordPress’s own order.

It is suppressed automatically when there is nothing to print:

  • the post has no tags, or
  • the post type does not support tags at all — a page, or a custom type registered without post_tag.

So you can leave the switch on for a site that tags some posts and not others; the untagged ones simply get nothing.

Tags versus categories

Stoat prints them in different places for a reason:

Categories above the headline or in the byline row what section this belongs to
Tags under the article what this is about

A reader arrives through the category and leaves through a tag. That is the shape worth keeping: a handful of categories that describe your sections, and as many tags as the subject matter needs.

Tag archives

Each tag links to /tag/<slug>/, which is drawn by the same listing template as everything else, so all the Archive settings apply — including a featured first post, which a tag can turn on for itself.

A tag’s description (set on its edit screen) is printed under the archive title. Worth filling in for the tags people actually land on from a search engine.

Hiding tags on one post

There is no per-post switch. Remove the tags from the post, or hide the block with Additional CSS using the post’s own body class:

.postid-123 .entry-tags { display: none; }

Last updated September 13, 2026

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