Let the Tagging Begin!

After signing up for a del.icio.us account earlier today, I decided I ought to go whole-hog and incorporate tagging functionality into my site as well. In order to do that, I installed Neato’s Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress.

The installation for that thing was more complicated than it lets on. I got it to show tags in the sidebar of my post pages pretty easily, but it really took some doing to put together a page where I could show a little tag cloud action (check the tag archive to see what I mean). It’s working now, so check it out. If you try this out yourself and have trouble with it, check out the “local help” files which it installs to your site. There is some info about incorporating this stuff into your WordPress theme. The thing I struggled with was needing to create a “tags.php” page in order to actually hold the tag archive - for whatever reason. I still can’t figure out why it works like this. But all I know is that it wouldn’t let me just drop a line of PHP into my existing archives page, even though I have EZstatic installed, which lets me execute PHP in that space. Anyway, what I did was copy the formatting from my “page” template, and popped that into the “tags.php” and then hardcoded in the introduction and php coding necessary to display the tag cloud. It’s not impossible, but it’s not exactly easy either. Maybe I just was doing it wrong though. I’ll probably look at it again during the light of day and see if there’s a better way.

Another note: I haven’t worked this out yet, but in order to get the directory-style functionality to work in the settings for this plugin to work (in other words, showing up as /tag/tagname/ instead of index.php?tag=tagname, I think you probably have to do roughly the same thing. Set up a template page called “tag.php” to display how those archive pages are going to look. That’s the hypothesis I’m operating under currently, although I haven’t tested it out yet.

Anyway, in case anybody cares, I also consolidated my old categories and date archives pages into one super page. So if you’re looking for it, that’s where it went. Blah, I hope somebody else out there appreciates all these cool modifications I do to make this site more convenient and navigable, cause they sure are a lot of work. I mean, I love em, but I’m guessing nobody else really even notices them. Oh well, whatever.

Oh, before I forget - here’s the new Pop Occulture del.icio.us account, which you can view. I’m going to make it strictly for Pop Occulture-related items and continue using Furl for myself. Also, I’m not going to retro-actively tag old posts from before I installed this. They all still have categories, so I don’t see any point in pouring in all the time that would take. From here on out though, posts will also feature tags - for whatever that’s really even worth. God only knows…


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