diff --git a/src/content.lisp b/src/content.lisp
index c818e0c..a80fc1f 100644
--- a/src/content.lisp
+++ b/src/content.lisp
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
    (date :initform nil :initarg :date :accessor content-date)
    (text :initform nil :initarg :text :accessor content-text)))
 
+(defmethod initialize-instance :after ((object content) &key)
+  (with-accessors ((tags content-tags)) object
+    (when (stringp tags)
+      (setf tags (mapcar #'make-tag (cl-ppcre:split "," tags))))))
+
 (defun read-content (file)
   "Returns a plist of metadata from FILE with :text holding the content as a string."
   (flet ((slurp-remainder (stream)
@@ -46,9 +51,7 @@
          (parse-field (str)
            (nth-value 1 (cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings "[a-zA-Z]+: (.*)" str)))
          (field-name (line)
-           (make-keyword (string-upcase (subseq line 0 (position #\: line)))))
-         (read-tags (str)
-           (mapcar #'make-tag (cl-ppcre:split "," str))))
+           (make-keyword (string-upcase (subseq line 0 (position #\: line))))))
     (with-open-file (in file :external-format '(:utf-8))
       (unless (string= (read-line in) (separator *config*))
         (error "The provided file lacks the expected header."))
@@ -57,7 +60,6 @@
                      appending (list (field-name line)
                                      (aref (parse-field line) 0))))
             (content (slurp-remainder in)))
-        (setf (getf meta :tags) (read-tags (getf meta :tags)))
         (append meta (list :text content))))))
 
 ;; Helper Functions
diff --git a/themes/hyde/post.tmpl b/themes/hyde/post.tmpl
index 6406035..3c514cd 100644
--- a/themes/hyde/post.tmpl
+++ b/themes/hyde/post.tmpl
@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@
 <div class="article-meta">{\n}
   <h1 class="title">{$post.title}</h1>{\n}
   <div class="tags">{\n}
-    Tagged as {foreach $tag in $post.tags}
-                <a href="../tag/{$tag.slug}.{$config.pageExt}">{$tag.name}</a>{nil}
-                    {if not isLast($tag)},{sp}{/if}
-              {/foreach}
+    {if $post.tags}
+      Tagged as {foreach $tag in $post.tags}
+                  <a href="../tag/{$tag.slug}.{$config.pageExt}">{$tag.name}</a>{nil}
+                      {if not isLast($tag)},{sp}{/if}
+                {/foreach}
+    {/if}
   </div>{\n}
   <div class="date">{\n}
-    Written on {$post.date}
+    {if $post.date}
+      Written on {$post.date}
+    {/if}
   </div>{\n}
 </div>{\n}
 <div class="article-content">{\n}
diff --git a/themes/readable/post.tmpl b/themes/readable/post.tmpl
index a5be92f..b655ce7 100644
--- a/themes/readable/post.tmpl
+++ b/themes/readable/post.tmpl
@@ -3,13 +3,19 @@
 {template post}
 <div class="row-fluid">{\n}
   <h1 class="page-header">{$post.title}</h1>{\n}
-  <p>Tagged as 
-    {foreach $tag in $post.tags}
-      <a href="../tag/{$tag.slug}{$config.pageExt}">{$tag.name}</a>{nil}
-      {if not isLast($tag)},{sp}{/if}
-    {/foreach}
+  <p>
+    {if $post.tags}
+      Tagged as {foreach $tag in $post.tags}
+        <a href="../tag/{$tag.slug}{$config.pageExt}">{$tag.name}</a>{nil}
+          {if not isLast($tag)},{sp}{/if}
+      {/foreach}
+    {/if}
+  </p>
+  <p class="date-posted">
+    {if $post.date}
+      Written on {$post.date}
+    {/if}
   </p>
-  <p class="date-posted">Written on {$post.date}</p>
 
   {$post.text |noAutoescape}