We are self-confessed tag addicts here at WPMU. Tagaholics, if you will. We tag with wild abandon.
However, I don’t touch tags on my own blog. Given that tagging is fairly widespread in the blogging world and I appear to be missing out on all of the fun, I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at why tags may be useful – and in contrast, why they may be useless.
What is a Tag?
It happens to the best of us. We hit “Publish” on our latest masterpiece and then go about our day. At some point we take a look at the post to see how it is faring, and immediately spot the glaring error.
There are a lot of things you can get wrong when publishing a post on WordPress. There are the obvious grammatical and spelling mistakes, and some more technical, WordPress related snafus.
Ever forget to add tags to a post? I know I do all of the time. Sometime when you’ve spent lots of time on a post adding the tags just slips your mind. The Title to Tags plugin converts keywords from your post title into tags. You can edit the list of words that you want the plugin to ignore, allowing you a good degree of flexibility.
Features
Convert keywords from post title to tags
Edit ignore list
Converts on save, not on publish
Reset at any time
Does not convert if tags are already assigned
Our Mini Review
This week I’m going to look at some plugins that you can use to supercharge your WordPress categories and tags. These areas can be easily neglected as users potter on with the WordPress defaults. However, there are loads of plugins that can let you take full use of your categories and tags.
Simple tags lets you extend your WordPress tag functionality. It is the successor to the WordPress Simple Tagging Plugin, and works with WordPress 3.0.
Features
Tags suggestions
Compatible with TinyMCE, FCKeditor, WYMeditor and QuickTags
tags management (rename, delete, merge, search and add tags, edit tags ID)
Edit mass tags (more than 50 posts once)
