http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ Weblogtoolscollection News Topic: WP-Plugin: Technorati Tags for WordPress 2.3 en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:27:04 +0000 http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wp-plugin-technorati-tags-for-wordpress-23#post-1650 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:12:42 +0000 gormful 1650@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p><strong><em>UPDATE: 10/08/2007</em></strong><br /> Technorati Tags for WordPress 2.3 has been updated. This release removes the excess trailing slash and uses a plus (+) sign in place of the hyphen (-) used in separating slugs of the multiple word tags. The download link has been updated and it is advised to download the latest version to produce a more accurate Technorati tag search result. Thanks to <a href="http://www.jakebouma.com/">Jake</a> for pointing this out.</p> <p>Current Version: <strong>1.2</strong> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wp-plugin-technorati-tags-for-wordpress-23#post-1618 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:20:42 +0000 gormful 1618@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>This plugin was recently updated to support WordPress bloggers using different permalink structures in their blogs. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wp-plugin-technorati-tags-for-wordpress-23#post-1590 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:25:25 +0000 gormful 1590@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>With the current lack of features of WordPress 2.3 with regards to tagging, I first <a href="http://gormful.com/projects/tag-cloud-in-write-post-area/trackback/">wrote a hack</a> to display the available tags while <em>Writing a Post</em>. This way, the blogger would know which tag they would like to reuse. </p> <p>After a few minutes of tinkering with the core files, I decided to try making a plugin that would mimic <a href="http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/trackback/">Ultimate Tag Warrior</a>'s ability to display Technorati tags, a feature that I sorely miss, having to let go of the plugin I have come to know and love. I definitely know I have to do something about it. It's the OCD-ridden kid in me that just has to scratch this itch.</p> <p>The code I used for this plugin is based on the code of one of the core files in WordPress 2.3 and that would be the <code>category-templates.php</code> file found in the <code>wp-includes</code> folder of my WordPress Installation. This plugin returns a list of <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/">Technorati tags</a> associated to the post and it follows the same syntax of listing tags native to WordPress 2.3. The only limitation it has is that it is <strong>ONLY FOR WORDPRESS 2.3</strong>. I MIGHT integrate this plugin in the next release of <a href="http://gormful.com/projects/integrati/trackback/">my current theme</a>. Who knows.</p> <p>You can read more about it <a href="http://gormful.com/projects/wp23-technorati-tags/trackback/">here</a>.</p> <p>I created this plugin so that anyone who wants their posts listed as Technorati tagged posts. That way, you get more traffic (hopefully) from Technorati. This is also something I want my blog to have, and I think I'm not alone on this one. In case I am, well, I still did it for me. What are personal blogs for but your own person, right?</p> <p>A number of releases for my themes, a hack, and my first plugin in a week, who would've thought WordPress 2.3 would release the coder in me. Truly, necessity is the mother of all invention.</p> <p>P.S.<br /> I never had formal schooling in PHP, or any other programming language, except for Turbo Pascal, which was about half my life ago and has long been forgotten. There really is nothing to be afraid of programming. It's just a bunch of ones and zeroes. </p>