I figured that there might be something obscure like that. I work on the back-end mostly, so I'm not aware of all the quirks of the front-end.

I traced all the function calls for calling the_tags(), and I believe that I found the problem. One of the functions in the call stack for the_tags() makes a call to in_the_loop(). The in_the_loop() function simply has the following code:

   function in_the_loop() {
       global $wp_query;

       return $wp_query->in_the_loop;
   }

I haven't tested this, but I believe if you manually set that var to true before you start your custom loop and then set it back afterwards, you can work past that limitation.

So unfortunately, it seems that you still have to do a hack job, but at least its not as problem laden as having to deal with PHP4/PHP5 compatibility issues resulting from differences in how each handles object assignments.

To clarify my idea, you could do the following:

   global $wp_query;
   $wp_query->in_the_loop = true;

   /* custom loop code */

   $wp_query->in_the_loop = false;
I'm not saying that this is a good idea or that it will work, but it might help someone out there that doesn't want to deal with the mess. Having that code seems much more understandable to me than all the odd assignments to null, temp variables, etc.

If you try it out, let me know if it works. If it doesn't, there might be another reference to the $wp_query variable that I missed.

- Chris Jean

Paul Robinson wrote:
That is what was causing the problem for me. If I created a custom variable
it caused the problems of the_tags() not working. As soon as I changed it to
use $wp_query it worked great. So to be honest I don't have a clue.

2008/11/29 Gaarai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I'm curious why people are trying to use the $wp_query variable at all.
Simply create your own variable with a unique name, such as $my_query, and
avoid all these problems entirely.

- Chris Jean

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