[wp-hackers] Tagging Images in WordPress 3.0

Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) philip at frumph.net
Fri Sep 3 18:44:35 UTC 2010


Now we need it so that you can separate the images in the media manager by 
tags ;/ then i'd be a super happy camper

- Phil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul" <paul at codehooligans.com>
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Tagging Images in WordPress 3.0


> Actually you can try my plugin Media-Tags. 
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-tags/
>
> I wrote it for the purpose of tagging images. It uses the new WP Taxonomy 
> system.
>
> P-
>
>
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Kevin Stover wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I've been a long time lurker on this list, but this is my first posting. 
>> I'm
>> developing a plugin for a client and needed some advice. At the moment, 
>> I'm
>> stuck at the point of adding tags to images. The images need to be tagged
>> separately from the site's main post tags. Would the best way to do this 
>> be
>> via a custom taxonomy? I'm fairly versed in PHP, but there are still some
>> holes in my WordPress db knowledge. As an old hand at php, my first 
>> instinct
>> is to create a custom table to handle the tags, but I fear this may not 
>> be
>> the best practice. What do you think? I should also mention that I'm
>> interested in writing something myself instead of just using an existing
>> plugin, partially to help me learn the WordPress db system a little 
>> better.
>>
>> Thanks ahead of time for your help and advice,
>>
>> Kevin Stover
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