[wp-testers] "Categories"

[Andy Staines]

I too tried UTW yesterday and it behaves exactly as you describe  
below. In fact, I rather thought it was the most elegantly  
constructed plugin I have come across.
Andy
www.yellowswordfish.com

On 23 Nov 2005, at 07:01PM, Stuart wrote:

> I think the current implementation of categories is perfect, and there
> are lots of good template tags to work with - categories shouldn't be
> changed because this will definitely affect all of the existing
> Wordpress blogs out there.
>
> Tags should be implemented as an optional, additional method of
> tagging posts. Those who have already invested lots of time in their
> categories wouldn't have to use them, whereas new users and those that
> want the feature could benefit from the advantages of being able to
> use categories to structure their site and tags to describe their
> posts.
>
> I would like to tags implemented as they are in del.icio.us. You would
> effectively have a text box beneath the post editor and then beneath
> that a space seperated list of all of your tags. Clicking on a tag
> would insert it into the tags field (using javascript) and you would
> also be able to add as many tags as you wanted on the fly.
>
> My problem is that I'm not a developer so I'm relying on someone else
> hearing my pleas and implementing this. Yesterday I tried out the
> Ultimate tag warrior, but it was overly complex and didn't make sense.
> I think tagging functionality can be implemented in a more simple and
> effective manner if it was in the core.
>
> Cheers - Stuart.
>
>
> On 11/23/05, Nickolas Means <nmeans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> **Fighting temptation to rapid-fire volley over five e-mails with
>> dire warnings against messying-up WP ;o) **
>>
>>> So are you also saying that categories should be opened up in  
>>> that you
>>> would not be required to classify a post under a given category?
>>
>> If WP were to go the "turn it on or off" route, that'd make sense.
>> In fact, it would have to be that way if there were the ability to
>> turn off categorization.
>>
>> I still wonder, though, if there's enough widespread interest in
>> categories and tagging together to justify adding the functionality.
>> It'd be handy for some of us, but enough to justify the work?
>>
>> Nick
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