June 23, 2005

Tags are the new keywords

I’ve been tagging del.icio.us and Flickr for ages. Now I’d like to start tagging my blog entries to Technorati.

A few plugins (1, 2, 3) have rolled out to utilize your MT keywords as tags. The problem that none of them seem to address is that meta keywords are comma delimited. Tags are space delimited. I’ve got 3 years of posts that have commas in the MT Keywords field. I don’t want to loose my properly formatted meta keywords in my html… but I want to embrace tagging.

I need a tagging plugin that strips the commas from the end of each keyword, and adds a + between two word keywords to assemble a two word tag. Should be easy, right?

Update: ask and ye shall receive.


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3 Comments

By (o) on June 24, 2005 11:12 AM

Basically that's possible by my Tagwire plugin.

Assuming that you give the keywords field of the entry as like: movable type, keyword The following template produces http://technorati.com/tags/movable%20type and http://technorati.com/tags/keyword .

<MTEntryTags> http://technorati.com/tags/<$MTTag encode_url="1"$> </MTEntryTags>

To join two word keywords by "+" instead of "%20", I will revise my plugin a little.

By hudson on June 24, 2005 11:23 AM

Excellent! That's exactly what I'm looking for.

By Ray Bennett on October 13, 2005 8:12 PM

Great script! Question can this be used to pull the keywords from the meta keywords instead of the entry keywords. If so How?

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