Tag, You’re It!
Since I started using Flickr earlier this month, I’ve falling in love with tags. Using categories in WordPress has always been a burden, so made the move to rid the site of them. Using tags is much better way to classify things in my opinion. You can view a heat map or full list of the tags used here at MDV.
While looking for a plugin to do the job I found quite a few, but they were all done wrong. Just bout every tagging plugin out there for WP used the meta data to store tags. I just didn’t get it. All of the functionality is already built into WP with categories, so why not just use what is already there?
After much searching I finally found a solution. All it takes is a simple edit to post.php and one plugin file.
6/6/2005 at 12:41pm
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6/6/2005 at 12:32pm
Better yet, I have a list of every plugin I use here.
6/6/2005 at 11:49am
Nick,
Sorry, I’m not down with the lingo. Del.icio.us, since the upgrade yesterday, refers to your “heat map” display as “cloud”.
Got a link to that heat map plugin?
Thanks!
6/6/2005 at 11:21am
I’m not sure what you mean by a “cloud list”. I’m using a heat map plugin and also just a simple list on the 2 different pages.
6/6/2005 at 10:37am
I really like the tagging system you’ve implemented. I’m now in the process of switching from MT to WP, and I figure as long as I’m going to all the trouble of converting my templates, I might as well switch from traditional categories to tags as well.
Only problem is I can’t for the life of me figure out how to display a “cloud” list of the tags on my archives page (like you did). I can’t seem to accomplish it with either wp_list_cats or the_category.
The “heat map” is probably too advanced for me; I don’t need that. But I’m afraid a normal list will take up too much vertical space, so I’d really like to do the cloud thing. Can you clue me in?
Thanks!
5/14/2005 at 6:28pm
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4/5/2005 at 9:55am
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4/2/2005 at 2:24pm
Thanks Nick, I’m definitely going to take you up on that soon. The thing is that I’m not using the category structure tag. *scratching head*
4/2/2005 at 9:58am
By the way…feel free to hit me up on IM anytime.
Under Options->Permalinks, instead of using “archives/category” I changed it to “archives/tag”.
4/2/2005 at 9:52am
Alright, so don’t touch the template tags. Cool.
I guess the last thing I should ask you is about the rewrite rule. Where did you change that up?