[wp-testers] Tags function request

Paul Stamatiou p at pstam.com
Wed Sep 5 00:08:40 GMT 2007


I submitted a ticket for this a while back with a little UI mockup ala
how del.icio.us does it. Think it got pushed back to 2.4.

P

On 9/4/07, Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp at poplarware.com> wrote:
> Mark Jaquith wrote:
> > On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Mariusz C. wrote:
> >
> >> Will it be possible to adapt a function to the tag-function that suggest
> >> previously used tags, when writing posts?
> >
> > We're trying to refrain from adding a whole bunch of tags features at
> > first, but this would certainly make an excellent plugin.
>
> I am going to need to create such a plugin, because for a multilingual
> blog (one of my public released plugins) there is no way the existing
> tag functionality will work (you need to be able to edit the tag
> slugs). My plan is to put this on the post edit screen, and use AJAX
> so it's slick. The following functionality will be supported:
>
> * Add a tag to the post -- from drop-down list of existing tags in
> database
>
> * Define a new tag (enter tag text and slug; will also add it to the post)
>
> * Remove tag from post -- from drop-down list
>
> * Edit existing tag -- will affect all posts with this existing tag --
> can edit the tag text and slug. Possibly this should be on a separate
> admin screen, but I think I'll leave it on the post edit screen for now.
>
> I plan to create this next week, or maybe later this week depending on
> paying client work load... we'll see. Suggestions welcome!
>
> If anyone else has plans to make such a plugin, hopefully we can avoid
> duplication of effort. For my language plugin users, here are the
> essentials:
> (a) slugs need to be part of the editing process, not created
> automatically
> (b) correct filtering needs to be done in each section of the above screen
> (c) the plugin itself needs to be internationalized.
>
> So if you are planning to create something, and would like to make it
> work for my users as well (I'll link to your plugin on my language
> plugin site), contact me off list and we can confer.
>
> If anyone has other must-have features, let me know and I'll see what
> I can do...
>
>      --Jennifer
>
> --
> Jennifer Hodgdon
>
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Paul Stamatiou
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