Tags and Wordpress
Since I started using F-spot, Flickr and Scuttle, I’ve had a hard time going back to WordPress and its folder-ish/hierarchical model for labelling posts. So as usual I turned to google to see if there was a way to use “tags” instead of categories in WordPress, and I found a few plugins that do this. I decided to use cat2tag, which basically allows for on-the-fly creation of categories. In other words, it still uses WordPress categories and it doesn’t mess with your database. The nice thing about it is that when you write a post, the most popular tags are listed; clicking on one tags the current post. Of course you can add new tags, too.
Once I got the tags set up, I thought it would be cool to have a page that displays all tags a la Flickr, with the more popular ones in a larger font. It turns out you can use the weighted-categories plugin to handle this. I have not exactly figured out how to get this to work with my templates–I’m trying to get an archives page that lets you browse by month or category, and that also displays these Flickr-ish tags. Right now I just have it (inappropriately) at the top of my monthly archive pages (example, but this is what I’m after).
I also found the TechnoTag plugin, which lets you link to Technorati tags in a post or comments using <ttag></ttag>. If you prefer, you can use <ttaglist> at the end of a post for a space-separated list. An inline example:
Here are a couple of more sites you might be interested in:
Jerome’s keyword plugins
WordPress, Tagging, and a Critique of Hierarchy
May 17th, 2005 - 10:57 am
Wow, I would love to use F-Spot but all the thumbnails are blank for me! Even with the bleeding edge CVS version. That cat2tag plugin looks handy too! I’ve been using Bunny’s Technorati Tags, but it doesn’t support multi-word tags (such as “open source”). That’s the main reason for my wanting to switch to some other tagging system.
I so badly wish I could use F-Spot!
May 17th, 2005 - 11:58 am
Tyler, I didn’t build F-Spot from source, I just installed it using the Synaptic package manager in Ubuntu (or maybe apt-get install). Strange that you can’t get thumbnails with it…maybe you can check if your distro has a package built for it?
Myself I don’t care for KDE, but you could always look at digikam, which is a pretty mature project. I don’t think it does upload to flickr, however. But it has all the tagging capabilities and a lot more features.
Some screenshots of how easy F-Spot - Flickr is. Best of luck!
May 17th, 2005 - 12:26 pm
todd, I could never use a KDE app…I gotta stick with Gnome and GTK2 apps. It all looks so much prettier than KDE!
I replied to your e-mail, didn’t realize that e-mail was just a copy of this comment.
Anyway, I’ll post the workaround here to incase there’s anyone else that’d be interested.
Workaround for blank thumbnails in F-Spot: move ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db out of the way, re-import all images (to create the thumbnails) and then copy your old photos.db back (to get your tags and associations back).
July 28th, 2005 - 8:37 pm
[…] Big IDEA explains implementing not only tags, but displaying a tag cloud in your Wordpress blog. Take a look at the side of the Big IDEA blog to see the result, if you click on “see all tags” it takes you to an enormous tagcloud page, also next to every tag is a Technorati and del.icio.us icon. How cool is that, every internal tag also links to blogosphere categories(Technorati Tags) and to the most popular folksonomy(del.icio.us). […]
February 18th, 2007 - 11:33 am
is it automatic, or you have to list your tags yourself?