Brandon Fuller

Tag This

Well, seems like all the rage now is to call your categories tags. I guess there is a slight difference between the two concepts but its not that big a deal is it? So I give. I had to go and tagify my blog. I was looking at all the plugins out there and it seemed like there were a couple of them that do the same thing but only slightly differently. Some take your keywords and turn them into categories. I didn’t like that because I think categories are more like the “table of contents” for a book where tags are more like the index of the book. I ended up going with Tags.App and its working well. Still need to go back and tag about 500 blog entries but I will leave that as homework.

I added a tag cloud to my homepage in the sidebar but also created a standalone page Eventually when the cloud gets bigger, that page can have all the tags whereas the home page might just show the top 10 or something.

The one thing the plugin documentation had as TBD was some Apache rewrite directives. I really wanted those. So I spent sometime and figured those out. My goal was to say /tag/X where X is the tag name. Here is the rule I am using.

RewriteRule ^/tag/(.*)$ /mt/mt-tags.cgi?blog_id=2&tags=$1 [PT,NC,NE]

So I will keep tagging away and hopefully it will make things easier to find by topic. Otherwise, categories might have been just fine.