Up until now all the content of a post was being displayed on the index page. I didn’t like it that way and wanted each post to display only a certain number of characters and then have a link to the whole post. There is way to make it work when you use wordpress to create the posts, but I usually don’t do that. Even this post is being made using Blogjet. So I googled and found this plugin which does exactly that…

The only issue is that it’s not been implemented correctly. After certain posts that are truncated with certain HTML tags open, the rest of the document looses it’s formatting, usually getting italicised. I fixed the issue (partly) by editing the plugin. I changed line 40 from
echo "'>".$more_link_text."</a></p>";
to
echo "'>".$more_link_text."</a></em></strong></p>";

This ensure that the open tags for making the text italic and/or bold get closed for sure. It’s a very dirty hack, but has worked for me so far. Also, if you need your site to be valid for XHTML at all times, this is surely not the hack or even the plugin for you.

I finally replaced WP Taggerati plugin with Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 because it’s much more powerful. WP Taggerati would serve the needs of beginners, but if you want real control and a lot of features, UTW is the plugin in to go for…

To make sure that everything works fine, I did the following:

1. Removed the php code for displaying Tags from WP Taggerati from the theme files
2. Deactivated the plugin and deleted it (optional).
3. Activated UTW3.
4. I went phpMyAdmin and I removed the three tables created by WP Taggerati
5. Then, using phpMYAdmin, I updated the strings <itag> and </itag> to [ tags ] and [ /tags ] respectivly for all the posts. The former custom HTML tags are used by WP Taggerati to define tags, where as the latter are used by UTW.
   NOTE: I could have modified UTW’s php code too, but I didn’t want to use the ‘<itag>’ format. I searched a bit and found the information on how to replace the strings on LiewCF.com. 
6. Just went into Options -> Tags -> Manage Tags and Imported the embedded Tags.
7. Added the code into the theme files where ever needed. I also had to tweak a lot of setting to make the Tag Archive, Tags Archive and Search work.

…and now everything works perfectly…