[wp-testers] WP 2.3: Filtering in the tag cloud?

[Frederik Kunz]

Hello,

from what I've read about the new tagging functions in Wordpress 2.3 
tags will be more or less independent from post dates and from 
categories. I had the idea of combining all this information to find the 
right post(s) by e.g. filtering all posts from last year that have a 
certain tag, or all posts in category A that have tag X. Database wise 
it should be rather simple - just combine the tag search with the 
category id and/or the selected time frame. So this seems to be more a 
matter of the user interface / theme. One could click a "filter button" 
and from that moment on all selections (date / tag(s) / categories) will 
reduce the number of posts found and at the same time will change the 
tag cloud itself (wp_tag_cloud would need a few new parameters for 
this). Once you click the button again and then make a new selection or 
once you go to the index page, the filter is reset. This would not only 
be an improvement of the tagging function, but also of the interface 
itself. With a few clicks the user can see what the big topics (most 
used tags) were in the previous month or what tags are related to each 
other (as the tag cloud is revised with each click).

What do you guys think about this idea?

Best regards,

Frederik