Agkamai

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Antonio de Blockpocket nos reporta un bug que está en el plugin de Weighted Categories, el cual no muestra correctamente el link de la última categoría en el Tag Cloud. Para tal causa, ya ha creado un parche que corrige el error, el cual es simplemente cambiar la extensión del archivo a .php y sobreescribir el archivo del plugin.

Weighted Categories es un plugin recomendado para ser utilizado en conjunto con Cat2Tag.

I’m on the initial stages for the next version of Cat2Tag, which will have some extra features and some quick fixes, but basically this is what I’m trying to accomplish for the next release:

Technorati Tags
I don’t really find them really necessary nor useful, but seeing many people are requesting this feature, it will be included in the next version, turned-off by default, i’ll later explain how it will be turned on.

Collective-Tagging
Don’t really mind the concept, in short, the plugin will let the readers tag the posts, again some may find it useful, some others don’t, so again, it will be turned-off by default. I need to research a lot more into this, and if an anonymous user can take part of this collective-tagging thing or it is neccesary to register before.

Control Panel
I think for more customization, a control panel is required, and last time I checked there’s a way to dynamically add a control panel, the point here is to make the plugin zero invasive to any Wordpress installation, with that I mean, “only one file for everything”.

Custom Separators
If you don’t like the blank spaces as a separator, you can choose any symbol but alphanumerical and international symbols like á or ñ.

Sub-Tags
Sub-Tags = Sub-Categories, the most practical way to flag a subcategory if found could be using the main tag, then write a special symbol indicating we’re going to create a sub-category (different from the separator symbol), then write the name of the new sub-category, something like this:

• You have a main category called “Cat”
• You want to have a sub-category of “Cat” called “SubCat”
• In order to have “SubCat” as a subcategory of “Cat” you will need to write on the tags field “Cat > SubCat”.

If you have better ways to make this, please post it in the comments.

And those are the main new features I plan for the next version of Cat2Tag. And again I encourage you to post your opinions, bug reports and feedback about this plugin in the comments.

Want to know what’s new about Cat2Tag Check it here

Jeff Minard writes

I’ve made some improvements to the cat2tags plugin. Noteable, you can use spaces, the list is comma separated, and I combined the output of tags with a weighted list — looks pretty good.

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Want 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:

1. Download this file and save it as .php.
2. Upload the file to your plugins folder, which in most cases is inside the wp-content folder.
3. Go to your Admin Panel, and in the Plugins section, activate it.
4. 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!