Hashtag behaviour has changed for new tags
Ahh, the perils of WordPress Plugins. I've used a bunch to make navigation and other things work better for this website than it would with unenhanced WordPress but it does run the risk that support may wane over time. That's happened for a few plugins used here from sole developers that stagnated at some version of PHP or WordPress preceding the current ones.
Case in point is the Hashtagger plugin which enables a WP Post (not a Forum post) author/editor to type some #tagname into the Subject or body and it would, on publishing:
- add that tagname to the table of Tagnames if it was new
- format the #tagname in the subject and body of the post as a hyperlink to a dynamic page that would show all the posts having the same tag
In the last year or so, that second step fails for new tags but still works of tags that were created in an earlier era. The attached image of a post illustrates the problem. #RM11 #AI #acheck #rm11 are all newly created from the post's subject and body but are not hyperlinked therein. #phantom #database #rm10 #rm4 #RM7 are older tags and are hyperlinked (highlighted in green) in the subject and/or body.
Fortunately, the 1st step still works and the newly created tags are listed alphabetically by WP in the Tags list after the body of the post and they are hyperlinked from there. The Tag Cloud and Tag List plugins still work with both the older and later tagnames.
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