[Developers] Blog properties and ping idea

[Kirsten Jones]

Once we've got agreement on the basic behavior I'll be happy to create  
a mt plugin as well...

Kirsten

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On Aug 22, 2007, at 8:00 AM, "Kirrily Robert" <skud at infotrope.net>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Kirrily Robert
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