08.23.05
Tag Cloud
Operating on the theory that most people who come to my blog don’t particularly care when something was posted, but focus rather on the subject matter, I’ve eliminated all links to date-based archives and inserted a tag cloud into the sidebar. This has the additional benefit of trimming the length of my sidebar significantly, making it somewhat more likely that people will notice stuff like the AJAX poll. Another cool feature: in addition to clicking on a tag to see posts on that subject, you can view tag intersections with just a little bit of manual effort. The format for tag intersections is http://www.acetylene.net/tag/tag1+tag2: for example, apple+podcasts. Maybe sometime in the near future I’ll work up a way to do that without having to type anything into the address bar.
The plugin I used to add tag support to WordPress is Ultimate Tag Warrior. This description of the process was a big help, too.
MiguelD Said:
August 26, 2005 at 8:14 am
I’m totally jealous – and I have to do set these up as soon as I finish fixing my site. I got a chance to try the tag links and they work great. The article is right, for the type of weblog /fotoblog I write, the calendar doesn’t make much sense.
I did add Geo tags back to my site which 1.5 dropped. The plug-in for it adds a drop down so you can pick a location for each post. Since I am always posting from odd locations – that is great.
Jim Said:
October 7, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Hey Miguel,
What plugin did you use? I was looking for a geotag plugin for my wife’s site a few weeks ago, and the best I could do was to use HeadMeta and sort of bolt in the geotags by hand. What you’re talking about sounds a lot closer to what I’d like to use.
MiguelD Said:
October 10, 2005 at 4:01 pm
I used the Geo plugin by Owen Winkler http://redalt.com/downloads/
Works great, puts a nice drop down on your edit page. Just works
MiguelD Said:
October 10, 2005 at 4:02 pm
It’s a ways down the page I linked to by the way – about 2/3 of the way to the bottom