I am testing out the Agkamai.com Cat2Tag plugin. I have the need for some more folksonomy for WordPress and might whip something up this weekend. Till then, how well does this work?
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Cat2Tag has been working great for me — I couldn’t ask for much more. It’s in use at my blog (linked above) if you want to see it in action.
I’ve been using Jerome’s Keywords instead. I like it better because I use categories to structure my blog. Merging categories and tags just didn’t make sense for me.
I disagree with Brent (above), categories and tags seem (mostly) a natural merger to me; in fact I blogged this plug-in here.
The best thing for me was the ability to create cats on the fly – an option I missed greatly in WordPress. This gives me the ability to do so. In fact, as far as this plug-in goes I see little difference between cats and tags.
I made 1 simple change to the plug-in on line 117, to make the manage post section of WordPress read “xx Most Popular Categories:” instead of “Most xx Popular Categories”, but aside from that have left it as is. You can see it in action at my blog as well, but I don;t think you’ll see a difference between that and normal categories from the reader’s side – the benefits are primarily on the publisher’s side, from what I can see. If anyone else sees it differently, please let me know.
Maybe I should clarify what I am trying to say. For most people I agree that categories and tags are essentially the same thing. However, long ago I created a set of hierarchical categories on my blog that are used to structure the content of a couple of static pages. The way that I use categories makes it so that tags and categories don’t necessarily merge for me. So using keywords just works better for my specific blog.
It doesn’t work anymore if you install the plugin Bunny’s Technorati Tags.
I don’t know the details of your WordPress tag plugin, but if it makes sense, consider hooking up the tags to Simpy – http://www.simpy.com
I definitely vopte for Cat2Tags. The merer of categories and tags is copletely natural for my purposes. its a great plug in and as a bonus leaves my WP installation “bog standard” for the future.