WordPress Tags

Something I have been meaning to do for a while is go through my categories and clean them up because 70% of all my posts were in the general category and if anyone wanted to view by category they were in for a mess of hurt.
Recently tags have come into the main stream, with del.icio.us and flickr.com. Mainly due to the fact that tagging is extremely efficient and easy for categorizing both for the user and the admin. I had been looking for awhile and I came across this plugin last night and I had to implement it right away. The directions may be discouraging but it was extremely easy to setup. And for tagging posts it is much easier then I thought, all you have to do is type your tags in a field that is directly below the trackbacks field, separated by spaces just like flickr.com or del.icio.us; this field shows in both the press it bookmarklet and the main post page. It also includes an Admin interface to administer the tags (delete and rename). After the install you can create a link cloud, top 10 and/or an archive list. There are tons of features and fully recommend this plugin for every wp’er.
I do hope that the author will create some sort of sub tags interface. Del.icio.us has done this for a while and it makes tags so much more useful.

FYI: Tagging will not replace searching; only categorizing. Don’t get searching and tagging confused they are different. Because looking for a certain topic is different then looking for a certain term.

P.S. 455 more posts to tag.

About the Author, Dan Cameron:

I'm the owner and solution engineer , a web solutions company that specializes in web development including WordPress.

I started my first blog in 2003 and transitioned to WordPress in 2004. Since moving to WordPress I've written a few plugins and themes for public consumption. Lately I'm busy engineering/building/coding and have only been able to share a few code snippets.

If you're in need of some web development, web design or custom WordPress plugins and/or themes contact me, I'll be happy to discuss it with you.

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  1. Excellent. I love it.

    Text replace would be a great feature. It would *help* in synonyms and it would be great for shortnames and acronyms like you said.

    I updated my tags page and I was wondering, should your tag.php file include a get sidebar function rather then just putting the related tags and archives like I have. I had no problem editing it but I would imagine a lot of users wouldn’t have a clue in creating a new sidebar for the tag file nor know how to add something to the tag side bar without them adding it to the universal sidebar..

  2. I actually had to go back to version 1.0 because it was breaking commenting.

    You might want to check it out.

    The problem I was getting was, after I submit a comment or delete a comment I was greeted with the white screen of death. The comment did post or deleted.

  3. Crapwagons.

    Posting a comment isn’t something that I tested (And I’m still running 1.0 on my blog). It seems a like a slightly odd thing for the changes I made to cause. Did you change anything else?

    (Perhaps the need for shortnames would vanish if I did the list of tags on the tag-adder, thing?)
    (I’ll have a look into that sidebar thing.)

  4. Crapwagons.

    Posting a comment isn’t something that I tested (And I’m still running 1.0 on my blog). It seems a like a slightly odd thing for the changes I made to cause. Did you change anything else?

    (Perhaps the need for shortnames would vanish if I did the list of tags on the tag-adder, thing?)
    (I’ll have a look into that sidebar thing.)

  5. Crapwagons.

    Posting a comment isn’t something that I tested (And I’m still running 1.0 on my blog). It seems a like a slightly odd thing for the changes I made to cause. Did you change anything else?

    (Perhaps the need for shortnames would vanish if I did the list of tags on the tag-adder, thing?)
    (I’ll have a look into that sidebar thing.)

  6. Crapwagons.

    Posting a comment isn’t something that I tested (And I’m still running 1.0 on my blog). It seems a like a slightly odd thing for the changes I made to cause. Did you change anything else?

    (Perhaps the need for shortnames would vanish if I did the list of tags on the tag-adder, thing?)
    (I’ll have a look into that sidebar thing.)

  7. Crapwagons.

    Posting a comment isn’t something that I tested (And I’m still running 1.0 on my blog). It seems a like a slightly odd thing for the changes I made to cause. Did you change anything else?

    (Perhaps the need for shortnames would vanish if I did the list of tags on the tag-adder, thing?)
    (I’ll have a look into that sidebar thing.)

  8. It is weird. I figured it was the plugin because I changed all my template back to the way I had them before the plugin and it still occurred and then I just deactivated the plugin and my comments were back up.

    tag adder would solve the synonyms, text replace, and abbreviations.

    The sidebar thing was just a suggestion.

    Thanks.

  9. It is weird. I figured it was the plugin because I changed all my template back to the way I had them before the plugin and it still occurred and then I just deactivated the plugin and my comments were back up.

    tag adder would solve the synonyms, text replace, and abbreviations.

    The sidebar thing was just a suggestion.

    Thanks.

  10. It is weird. I figured it was the plugin because I changed all my template back to the way I had them before the plugin and it still occurred and then I just deactivated the plugin and my comments were back up.

    tag adder would solve the synonyms, text replace, and abbreviations.

    The sidebar thing was just a suggestion.

    Thanks.

  11. It is weird. I figured it was the plugin because I changed all my template back to the way I had them before the plugin and it still occurred and then I just deactivated the plugin and my comments were back up.

    tag adder would solve the synonyms, text replace, and abbreviations.

    The sidebar thing was just a suggestion.

    Thanks.

  12. It is weird. I figured it was the plugin because I changed all my template back to the way I had them before the plugin and it still occurred and then I just deactivated the plugin and my comments were back up.

    tag adder would solve the synonyms, text replace, and abbreviations.

    The sidebar thing was just a suggestion.

    Thanks.

  13. Crapwagons.

    Posting a comment isn’t something that I tested (And I’m still running 1.0 on my blog). It seems a like a slightly odd thing for the changes I made to cause. Did you change anything else?

    (Perhaps the need for shortnames would vanish if I did the list of tags on the tag-adder, thing?)
    (I’ll have a look into that sidebar thing.)

  14. It is weird. I figured it was the plugin because I changed all my template back to the way I had them before the plugin and it still occurred and then I just deactivated the plugin and my comments were back up.

    tag adder would solve the synonyms, text replace, and abbreviations.

    The sidebar thing was just a suggestion.

    Thanks.

  15. First I want to thank you.

    I created a Dev site and copied everything over from my original site.

    I have deactivated all plugins, switched themes, updated my permalinks, reinstalled and just about everything else I could think of.

    Could you check it out.

    http://dev.dancameron.org

    Maybe JARED has an idea. :D

  16. First I want to thank you.

    I created a Dev site and copied everything over from my original site.

    I have deactivated all plugins, switched themes, updated my permalinks, reinstalled and just about everything else I could think of.

    Could you check it out.

    http://dev.dancameron.org

    Maybe JARED has an idea. :D

  17. First I want to thank you.

    I created a Dev site and copied everything over from my original site.

    I have deactivated all plugins, switched themes, updated my permalinks, reinstalled and just about everything else I could think of.

    Could you check it out.

    http://dev.dancameron.org

    Maybe JARED has an idea. :D

  18. First I want to thank you.

    I created a Dev site and copied everything over from my original site.

    I have deactivated all plugins, switched themes, updated my permalinks, reinstalled and just about everything else I could think of.

    Could you check it out.

    http://dev.dancameron.org

    Maybe JARED has an idea. :D

  19. First I want to thank you.

    I created a Dev site and copied everything over from my original site.

    I have deactivated all plugins, switched themes, updated my permalinks, reinstalled and just about everything else I could think of.

    Could you check it out.

    http://dev.dancameron.org

    Maybe JARED has an idea. :D

  20. Did you modify your comment post page (wp-comments-post.php) or the comment section of your template?

    It is failing to redirect after the comment is posted. The post processing page tries to do a redirect (302) after it saves the comment, to either a location you specify in your comment form (‘redirect_to’) or the referring page if you have not specified, so you usually get redirected back to the page you were submitting the comment from.

    For whatever reason, your comments-post page is not sending this redirect header after it saves the comment. Hope this helps.

  21. Did you modify your comment post page (wp-comments-post.php) or the comment section of your template?

    It is failing to redirect after the comment is posted. The post processing page tries to do a redirect (302) after it saves the comment, to either a location you specify in your comment form (‘redirect_to’) or the referring page if you have not specified, so you usually get redirected back to the page you were submitting the comment from.

    For whatever reason, your comments-post page is not sending this redirect header after it saves the comment. Hope this helps.

  22. Did you modify your comment post page (wp-comments-post.php) or the comment section of your template?

    It is failing to redirect after the comment is posted. The post processing page tries to do a redirect (302) after it saves the comment, to either a location you specify in your comment form (‘redirect_to’) or the referring page if you have not specified, so you usually get redirected back to the page you were submitting the comment from.

    For whatever reason, your comments-post page is not sending this redirect header after it saves the comment. Hope this helps.

  23. Did you modify your comment post page (wp-comments-post.php) or the comment section of your template?

    It is failing to redirect after the comment is posted. The post processing page tries to do a redirect (302) after it saves the comment, to either a location you specify in your comment form (‘redirect_to’) or the referring page if you have not specified, so you usually get redirected back to the page you were submitting the comment from.

    For whatever reason, your comments-post page is not sending this redirect header after it saves the comment. Hope this helps.

  24. Did you modify your comment post page (wp-comments-post.php) or the comment section of your template?

    It is failing to redirect after the comment is posted. The post processing page tries to do a redirect (302) after it saves the comment, to either a location you specify in your comment form (‘redirect_to’) or the referring page if you have not specified, so you usually get redirected back to the page you were submitting the comment from.

    For whatever reason, your comments-post page is not sending this redirect header after it saves the comment. Hope this helps.

  25. No I didn’t change it at all. And I actually reinstalled WP just to make sure there wasn’t anything I hacked recently that I forgot about.

    The template, I don’t think has anything to do with it since I can change to an older theme and it still doesn’t work. But I will install the WP default theme on that dev site and see if it still breaks.

    Thanks.

  26. No I didn’t change it at all. And I actually reinstalled WP just to make sure there wasn’t anything I hacked recently that I forgot about.

    The template, I don’t think has anything to do with it since I can change to an older theme and it still doesn’t work. But I will install the WP default theme on that dev site and see if it still breaks.

    Thanks.

  27. No I didn’t change it at all. And I actually reinstalled WP just to make sure there wasn’t anything I hacked recently that I forgot about.

    The template, I don’t think has anything to do with it since I can change to an older theme and it still doesn’t work. But I will install the WP default theme on that dev site and see if it still breaks.

    Thanks.

  28. No I didn’t change it at all. And I actually reinstalled WP just to make sure there wasn’t anything I hacked recently that I forgot about.

    The template, I don’t think has anything to do with it since I can change to an older theme and it still doesn’t work. But I will install the WP default theme on that dev site and see if it still breaks.

    Thanks.

  29. No I didn’t change it at all. And I actually reinstalled WP just to make sure there wasn’t anything I hacked recently that I forgot about.

    The template, I don’t think has anything to do with it since I can change to an older theme and it still doesn’t work. But I will install the WP default theme on that dev site and see if it still breaks.

    Thanks.

  30. Yeah even after the theme change it still doesn’t work.

    The plugin must have something it that breaks with me site.

    She said, she had no problem with her site. I wonder why?

  31. Yeah even after the theme change it still doesn’t work.

    The plugin must have something it that breaks with me site.

    She said, she had no problem with her site. I wonder why?

  32. Yeah even after the theme change it still doesn’t work.

    The plugin must have something it that breaks with me site.

    She said, she had no problem with her site. I wonder why?

  33. Yeah even after the theme change it still doesn’t work.

    The plugin must have something it that breaks with me site.

    She said, she had no problem with her site. I wonder why?

  34. Yeah even after the theme change it still doesn’t work.

    The plugin must have something it that breaks with me site.

    She said, she had no problem with her site. I wonder why?

  35. First I want to thank you.

    I created a Dev site and copied everything over from my original site.

    I have deactivated all plugins, switched themes, updated my permalinks, reinstalled and just about everything else I could think of.

    Could you check it out.

    http://dev.dancameron.org

    Maybe JARED has an idea. :D

  36. Did you modify your comment post page (wp-comments-post.php) or the comment section of your template?

    It is failing to redirect after the comment is posted. The post processing page tries to do a redirect (302) after it saves the comment, to either a location you specify in your comment form (‘redirect_to’) or the referring page if you have not specified, so you usually get redirected back to the page you were submitting the comment from.

    For whatever reason, your comments-post page is not sending this redirect header after it saves the comment. Hope this helps.

  37. No I didn’t change it at all. And I actually reinstalled WP just to make sure there wasn’t anything I hacked recently that I forgot about.

    The template, I don’t think has anything to do with it since I can change to an older theme and it still doesn’t work. But I will install the WP default theme on that dev site and see if it still breaks.

    Thanks.

  38. Yeah even after the theme change it still doesn’t work.

    The plugin must have something it that breaks with me site.

    She said, she had no problem with her site. I wonder why?

  39. Thanks Christine D., It finally works I don’t know how but one of the revisions you gave me worked, no tinkering necessary.

    So now users can click on a tag and then click on a related tag to narrow down your search.

    Now all I need to do is tag all my posts.

  40. Thanks Christine D., It finally works I don’t know how but one of the revisions you gave me worked, no tinkering necessary.

    So now users can click on a tag and then click on a related tag to narrow down your search.

    Now all I need to do is tag all my posts.

  41. Thanks Christine D., It finally works I don’t know how but one of the revisions you gave me worked, no tinkering necessary.

    So now users can click on a tag and then click on a related tag to narrow down your search.

    Now all I need to do is tag all my posts.

  42. Thanks Christine D., It finally works I don’t know how but one of the revisions you gave me worked, no tinkering necessary.

    So now users can click on a tag and then click on a related tag to narrow down your search.

    Now all I need to do is tag all my posts.

  43. Thanks Christine D., It finally works I don’t know how but one of the revisions you gave me worked, no tinkering necessary.

    So now users can click on a tag and then click on a related tag to narrow down your search.

    Now all I need to do is tag all my posts.

  44. Thanks Christine D., It finally works I don’t know how but one of the revisions you gave me worked, no tinkering necessary.

    So now users can click on a tag and then click on a related tag to narrow down your search.

    Now all I need to do is tag all my posts.

  45. Tagging the posts is the hardest part (:

  46. Tagging the posts is the hardest part (:

  47. Tagging the posts is the hardest part (:

  48. Tagging the posts is the hardest part (:

  49. Tagging the posts is the hardest part (:

  50. Tagging the posts is the hardest part (:

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