[wp-forums] tag cloud

[Phu]

Just a quick FYI - The consolidation of duplicated tags i.e. theme, themes,
theming can be handled via a stemming algorithm (
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/stemming/general/). The best
means of doing so would probably be via a cron job that runs nightly to stem
the tags.

On 12/28/05, Vicki Frei <vkaryl at allvantage.com> wrote:
>
> Absolutely agree, in all particulars.  Sounds like a plan....
>
> V
>
> On 12/28/2005 2:53:38 PM, Scott Merrill (skippy at skippy.net) wrote:
> > I
> > don't like the tag cloud much.  It wastes a lot of space above the
> > fold.  I accept that it's
> > here to stay.
> >
> > Can we at least make the tag cloud combine singular and plural versions
> > of the same word into a single tag display?
> >
> > Right now, we have the following tags:
> > category
> > categories
> > comment
> > comments
> > link
> > links
> > page
> > pages
> > permalink
> > permalinks
> > theme
> > themes
> >
> > That's half a dozen conceptually duplicated tags.  If we could
> > consolidate by word stem in some way, we could either show a more
> > smaller precise tag cloud, or include a couple of other terms in the
> > cloud that are being pushed out currently.
> >
> > Since we're
> > dealing with a fairly limited lexicon for WordPress, I think
> > we could safely experiment with combining these plurals with their
> > singulars.
> >
> >
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