9 Responses

1. Mary-Ann

   June 11th, 2005 at 4:57 am

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   The plugin author doesn’t seem to have comments working on her blog, so I’ll ask here in the hope that she’s reading…

   The installation file says put tag.php in themes/default/. I don’t use default, do I put it in the theme I do use?

   Usually I just do these things, but I caused myself three days of stress last week by not asking first about something simple!

2. Tore

   June 11th, 2005 at 7:53 am

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   Mmm. I don’t know anything about php, but I downloaded another plugin the other day and it had the same principle. I think the idea is that if there isn’t a tag.php in your custom theme folder it will use the tag.php from your default folder, so by putting it there it will work with all your themes.

   Now if I can just figure out what all these tag thingys are and why they seem to be so hot.

3. Sidney

   June 12th, 2005 at 7:16 am

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   Yup. It’s all written down in the Readme.

   Sid

4. mike

   June 12th, 2005 at 8:50 am

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   good plugin

5. Christine D.

   June 12th, 2005 at 5:27 pm

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   (whoops.. I’ll have to look into the comment thing. They vanished, I did some tinkering and they came back; but I seem to have poked them again.)

   But yeah. The templates thing will use the default tag.php one if there isn’t one in the theme you’re using.. if you copy it to your theme, you can tinker with it to your hearts content.

   Tags are pretty nifty. Like having a basquillion categories, really.

   For what its worth; the next version has a couple of little fixes (I pants’ed the localisation stuff, and the plugin url is wrong. Oops), and has a tag cloud viewer. (And half of an admin thing… Once I’ve got the admin side finished 0.2 will be out (: )

   - Christine

6. Christine D.

   June 15th, 2005 at 4:11 pm

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   Version 1.0 lives here

7. Tore

   June 15th, 2005 at 7:59 pm

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   Hmm. Impressive stuff. Couldn’t get it to work tho. My tags display nicely but clicking them gets me nowhere. It’s probably too difficult stuff for my tiny brain.

   I did find a couple of thing slightly confusing even though the instructions are quite comprehensive; The fact that manage/tags doesn’t list anything unless you have first posted something and added a few tags in the process.

   I would think it more logical to first got to manage/tags and add tags there and then when you post, check some of those like you check categories. But I probably haven’t understood the essence of the tagging experience. In any case… following the instructions I was left expecting something to happen on the manage/tags page right away. Maybe I skipped something. It’s 4am after all.

   Don’t think I’ll look into tags again unless it comes readymade and built into a future WP release. I think it is probably too advanced for my humble use. Thank you still!

8. Christine D.

   June 15th, 2005 at 8:09 pm

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   Hmm. Not 100% sure on why the clicking of tags wouldn’t get you anywhere. Maybe you missed the step in the install where the redirects get populated (You go to Options, then Permalinks, then Update Permalink Structure); or perhaps there’s something about your install which means this aspect doesn’t work properly.

   Tags behave in a slightly different way to categories - what you’re wanting to do is more like the approach you could take using the built-in categories instead of making the jump to tags. One of the ideas behind tags is that you can pick keywords that are more specific (and perhaps, a specific keyword might only be used one), rather than choosing from a predetermined list.

   - Christine

9. Tore

   June 17th, 2005 at 10:47 am

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   No, I didn’t forget any steps. Still… it seems to work fine for everyone else, so it’s probably something excentric I have done to my other site files that screws this up.

   Thank you for your answer and for the info on tags!