[wp-forums] Trying to summarise - tags

Lloyd D Budd lloydomattic at gmail.com
Fri Sep 8 19:39:15 GMT 2006


On 9/8/06, Lara @ Anubis Marketing <lara at anubismarketing.com> wrote:
> Anyone can add tags, and I find myself doing that quite a bit when someone
> has either not added them, or if I think of one that might be more relevant
> than the ones they've added.
> One of the issues with adding tags when initially posting, is the way the
> tags appear later on. If a phrase is used, "search engine optimization" for
> example, in a format like this:
>
> SEO, search engine optimization, marketing
>
> The tags wind up being like this:
> SEO
> search
> engine
> optimization
> marketing
>
> All separated like that... is there a way to make it just take whatever's
> between commas and put it as ONE tag? Quite often that's what I wind up
> doing, is adding the tags the OP MEANT to use...
>
> That said, my vote is for keeping the tag cloud right where it is. I use it
> a LOT myself, and I'm sure others do as well. And yes, it's very "2.0" ish.
> ;)
>
> ~ Lara

Hi Lara,

The convention (*sic*) amoung sites that have tagging is space
delimiting (comma works too), and for multi-word tags to be "double
quotes" or just written as oneword.

I hope that helps,
Lloyd


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