If things seem a bit weird or slow, that could be because I just took the software that drives this website up to Wordpress 2.3. (I delayed because it took until this weekend for the poll plugin to update for compatibility.)
Wow, tags. I have really jumped on the bandwagon late for that one. I guess we’ll see how this goes.
Update: now you can see the tags too. I even have a “tag cloud” now (see the sidebar). If that won’t get me to stay on topic with this blog, nothing will. (Is it bad if “Doctor Who” becomes bigger than “Christianity”? Probably.)
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Congrats on the upgrade. Although I haven’t mentioned it yet on my blog, I have just discovered the *best* WP plugin for tags after road testing quite a few. Recommended Tags Plugin. It will suggest tags for you to use, and will prompt tags (autocomplete) as you type so that you don’t accidentally mis type a previously used tag. It basically gives you all the features that Simple Tagging had…all WP blogs need this plugin.
And for general tag management, Advanced Tag Management or Tag Managing Thing are good.
It also doesn’t look like you have added tags to your theme yet, if you visit my post on WordPress 2.3 it will give you all the links I mentioned above and also links to some pages that will help you add the tag cloud and tags into your theme. I can’t wait for 2.4 to be released, when hopefully most of these extra plugins are made part of the standard code.
I will definitely be implementing some of these things. Thanks. I don’t know how much thought needs to go into tags; are they really worth the trouble beyond simply categorizing the post?
Personally I ‘love’ tags. I don’t use categories at my blog anymore (some people would think that’s a mistake though), and I only use tags. Categories use a hierarchy, like Theology -> Person of Christ or Bible -> Hermenutics or whatever BUT tags are more like keywords. So you can tag your posts with the names of the people you mention in your post and all the subject areas you mention. Then other plugins can suggest other related posts that share similar tags. At the same time, like categories, if someone wants to see every post that references John MacArthur, they can click that tag.
Also, if you use the All In One SEO Pack plugin, it can add the tags as keywords in your meta code for each post, which helps Google and Technorati better index your posts and helps people find them.
Wow. Well, thanks to your links and posts, I have shoehorned tags into the templates (and a cloud on the sidebar). I need to de-uglify this a bit, and it’s probably time to actually do my own Sandbox theme instead of bolting things onto this one. But all in all, I can see how this would be nice. I appreciate the help.