[Developers] Blog properties and ping idea

[Kirrily Robert]

On 8/22/07, Shawn Simister <narphorium at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Thats exactly what I was thinking. Since most topics still have big ugly
> IDs, an auto-complete input would really increase the usability.
>  I think it would be cool if this worked as a WordPress plugin but I don't
> know much about PHP or WP internals so I'm not even sure if its possible.

I was wondering that too.  The main tag plugin for WP is Ultimate Tag
Warrior so the tag entry field can obviously be munged by plugins.
Just replace or extend UTW.  But tag entry's the easy bit.  My
question is, what do you do with them once you've got them?

The HTML output onto the blog looks like this:

<a href="http://infotrope.net/blog/tag/barcamp" rel="tag">barcamp</a>

That rel="tag" is what tells Technorati etc that this is a tag and
makes them index it appropriately.  Would we want Technorati to index
freebase topic tags?  I don't see why not.  So all that would change
in the output would be the URL.  Would we keep the Freebase tags
separate from the ordinary blog tags?  Maybe.  You want people to have
a sense of what they'll get when they click on it, so you don't want
them all just mixed up together.

I'm going to be thinking about this all day, I think.

K.

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Kirrily Robert
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