Cat2Tag Release
Saturday, March 26th, 2005Want to know what’s new about Cat2Tag Check it here
UPDATE You can opt for an alternative version of this plugin. Check the details in here.
What’s exactly Cat2Tag? Well let me tell you it’s a plugin who lets you use folksonomies — you know, you have seen it in services like Flickr, del.icious and others — for your blog instead of the categories. The beauty in this one is you actually are using the categories sytem as the tags system, or in other words, it let you create new categories on-the-fly when you’re writing a new post, without actually doing any damage to the actual database structure, so it’s safe to uninstall this if you don’t like to use folksonomies, which I really doubt.
Requirements
- Wordpress 1.5 Strayhorn
- MySQL 4.0
- PHP 4.3 (Tested on 4.3.10)
Installation
Now, installation is really easy, it’s totally fool-proof, you don’t even need to modify your WordPress files or apply patches, the steps are 4:
- Download this file and save it as
.php. - Upload the file to your plugins folder, which in most cases is inside the
wp-contentfolder. - Go to your Admin Panel, and in the Plugins section, activate it.
- Actually, there’s no Step 4 — does it sound familiar to you? — just start writing a new post.
What this plugin does?
- Gives you the posibility to create new categories — a.k.a tags — when creating new posts, like you do when posting something on Flickr or del.icio.us.
- Shows the most popular tags with the posibility to add them to the tags field.
- Shows you all the available tags for the same thing mentioned above.
- You don’t need special keywords or additional tables to make it work, instead, it uses the categories system to organize your tags.
To do list
* Technorati, del.icio.us, Flickr tags integration.
* Press it bookmark compatibility.
* Recognition of underscores to be considered as spaces, as well words wrapped with quotes like Flickr does.
* mod_rewrite compatibility.
I’m open to more suggestions.
Other stuff
If you want to have an archives display like the Flickr popular tags, you can get the Weighted Categories plugin, thanks to Eduardo Arcos for pointing that out and saving me some work. Now to give it the Tag look, go to your permalink options and adjust the categories field to /tags.
You’re encouraged to modify this plugin at your own neccesities, but as always you give the proper credits to the author, which in this case is me, Edmundo Hidalgo.
Issues, bugs, etc.
If you have any problems or there’s some bugs in the plugin, let me know in the comments.
And that’s it. Have fun!