There, I think I’ve told you what was on my mind. So, “manual importer”, anybody? That’s All, Folks! (For my old keywords, there is one meta field called “keywords” which contains a comma-separated list of words, whereas for the ITE channels there is one entry per channel called “ite_topic” (IIRC) with a unique word as a value - but there can be more than one channel per post.) So, how about a very “customizable” importer? I would give the meta field name I want to convert to tags, and indicate if the tag data is comma-separated, space-separated, or simply placed in multiple fields. I could turn those old keywords and ITE channels into tags with an importer. (I now know it’s not very useful - maybe even, not at all.) Around the same time, I used Topic Exchange Channels for some of my posts, making the ITE channel visible on the post by adding a link to it (gosh, come to think of it - I hadn’t heard of tags yet, but what I was doing was some form of proto-tagging… quite impressed with myself!)Īnyway, leaving the self-congratulatory stuff aside, my wp_postmeta table contains old information about posts which has long since disappeared from this blog, but which is still there, ready to be recycled. More Importing/ConversionĪges ago, I added keywords to my blog posts. I’m sure structured portable social networks have a part to play here. I’d like a way to do this for my blog posts, too. I’ve encouraged people to open up tagging to the community on Flickr, and the feedback from those who have done it has been great. people who have commented on the blog before). Now, this would be a source of tag spam, unless it’s for example limited to registered users of the blog, or people identified by OpenID or on a “trust list” (e.g. I think somebody somewhere updated it for WP2.x - if you search you might find it. I haven’t touched this “hack” for years now, and I’ve heard conflicting information about its compatibility with recent WordPress versions. This is the kind of stuff I wanted to make possible for categories when I wrote Batch Categories, a lifetime ago. ![]() Remove tag X from all posts which are tagged Y. Add a bunch of tags to all the selected posts (result of a search or by-category selection). ![]() Rename tag “stephaniebooth” to “Stephanie Booth” everywhere it is. My local tagspace pages should have this feature too.Īnd how about an option to be able to see (in a click) posts tagged “cat” AND all the posts tagged with one of the related tags? (This could become a bit unwieldy though.) Tag Management Less multilingual, maybe I just want to have “cats” or “cat” (sometimes I use plural, sometimes singular, and the distinction isn’t important to me in this context). I use all those, but I’m sure (given the nature of tagging) some posts have slipped through the cracks and have only one or two of these tags. I want to be able to point to a page containing posts I tagged “adolescents” OR “teenagers” OR “ados” or “teens”. We need more of this, particularly if we start thinking multilingual. does it: here are my links tagged “books” AND “read”. This is the stuff I wrote about nearly 3 years ago. I’d like my local WordPress tagspace to allow tag combinations. Hell, most people who tag their posts right now point to the Technorati tagspace. ![]() Some people may not want to use the local tagspace. Somewhere, WordPress would ask me “What other tagspaces would you like links to?” and I’d enter “”, “”, “”, “” in some pretty form (we know how to do those now, don’t we?) Alternate Tagspaces For example, my Flickr photos tagged “cat”. I want the /tags/cat page to contain configurable pointers to other tagspaces. This means that if I tag a post “cat”, the link on that tag will take me to something like /tags/cat. So, based on what I’ve understood, WP2.3 will provide a local tagspace. Plugin makers, feel free to delve in here for inspiration. I don’t think all this should necessarily be in the WordPress core. Some of the stuff here might also be stupid. If it’s the case, please leave a note with a pointer in the comments. So (hopefully!) some of the stuff I’m speaking about here already exists. View this as my brain dump of what I’d like tags to do in WordPress and around.īear in mind that I haven’t tried 2.3 yet, don’t know exactly what it does and doesn’t do, and haven’t done much homework. I told you my mind never stops spinning, didn’t I? Here are a few follow-up thoughts on my previous post on tags.
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