Getting “Simple Tags” to work with WordPress v2.9

Users of the awesome, popular WordPress plug-in, Simple Tags, may have found that it isn’t compatible with the recently-released WordPress v2.9. However, here is a quick & easy fix…

1. Navigate to your ‘Plugins’ section in WordPress
2. Click on the ‘Editor’
3. Select the ‘Simple Tags’ plugin from the editor dropdown (usually near the top-right)
4. Ensure that you are editing the ‘simple-tags.php’ file (usually the first one in the list on the right-hand side)
5. Scroll down a bit to the section that says something like…  // Check version. global $wp_version; if ( strpos($wp_version, ’2.7′)
6. Change the 2.7 bit, to 2.9. Note that there’s much more stuff after this part of the file, of course – so don’t alter anything else.
7. Save the file – you should now be able to use Simple Tags once more!

Please note that this hack / workaround was found in the dicsussion forum of the plug-in’s creator; all credit goes to the user that posted it there. I’m merely re-posting the fix here in that hope that Google indexes it and allows others to more-easily find a fix.

Also note that when the plug-in creator eventually does release a proper fix, the fix may not work on a self-customised version of the config file, so edit at your own risk. That said, I have not experienced any issues with this workaround to date – but you may, so always do a backup first!

Have fun!