Donncha’s just released a brilliant plugin that’ll make a heck of a lot of people happy, site-wide tagging for WPMU.

Here’s the run down:

This is the initial release of a plugin that creates a set of pages like the WordPress.com Hot Topics pages. It’s a lot more simplistic, but by feeding posts into one blog it also creates a sitewide feed of all posts plus feeds of any tags and categories too.

I can’t tell you how happy this would have made me as a new user back in the day, it’s one of those ‘ultimate’ features whereby you suddenly get to connect all blogs in one place, people can see what’s going down in different places and (at least I hoped) would hook up with each other.

Which interestingly enough never really happened – even on a service that was originally geared entirely towards teachers, a serious common interest group, there just wasn’t that much connection going on and sitewide tags did nothing to help that.

What they did rock out at though was:

  • Allowing people to get a good feel of the kind of things people were using the site for
  • Allowing people to ‘feel’ like they are getting attention
  • Building SE traffic! (I *think* although I could well be wrong here, that tags pages account for definitely double digits % in terms of wp.com traffic despite having no actual ‘original’ content on them)

Which, all put together make for a darn useful plugin!

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