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is there a way to see the #’s I’ve used on my site, so I can be consistant despite not having memory? That would allow me to use them as a type of category organization, which I’d love.
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A list of tags so people can brows them (likely the same as above, but a separate use of it, from the reader side vs. the writer side.
A typical url for tags looks something like this: https://deaconpatrick.org/tag:Catholic. So you could make a pinned post that includes similar links to tags that people can browse.
As far as the first case goes, it requires some digging into the Write.as API a bit. I did a little tinkering around with the API and grabbed the tags you’ve used for your blog so far:
[‘theologyofthebody’, ‘Catholic’, ‘universe’, ‘life’, ‘Gospel’, ‘Hate’, ‘Love’, ‘Rivendell’, ‘FixedGear’, ‘WithAbandon’, ‘vanishingcommonarts’, ‘cursive’, ‘GodsEngineering’]
@Matt, maybe a simple tag manager would be a good tool to incorporate later down the road?
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Thank you, @cjeller1592! I’ve now done what I ought to’ve already, and have a list of #’s in my project notebook.
Going back through my posts I remembered a frustration/challenge of tags because they are getting used in different places, therefor differently.
Twitter tags: tags I choose because I think they are what others will search for or are already using. For me, this includes the #’s Catholic, universe, hate, love, cursive. I only used these tags because of Twitter, and other than there, they are a form of clutter. I’d rather they were’nt part of my blog “Category” tags. For example, arguably, all my posts are Catholic, so it is a usless Category tag.
I wonder if there could be “Category tags” for blog organization? Somehow I select which tags of the tag cloud I’ve used are Categories. These then appear in Category navigation for both writer and reader.
Personally, I have tag index in my about page and edit it manually. It’s pretty easy for me to maintain because I’m really methodical with my tags, and I don’t use a huge variety of tags. Though, I’d think it’d be super cool if there was a way that it was automated instead.
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i would love a script or plugin or something that enables me to query the writefreely db, pull all tags, and output a page that i can pin to the top, for my readers.
i cover a LOT of different subjects on my blog, and this would really help with organization.
not only that, but perhaps it would even help with what i call the “max posts per tag” issue, which @matt @cjeller1592 appears to be some sort of a limitation or bug… wherein:
"if user x, tags so many posts with a ceratain tag, then navigates to blog.tld/username/tag:footag, footag will fail to bring up all the content with that particular tag, only around 12 or so posts.
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i’ll put in a hearty vote for this.
but not so much a tag manager, moreso a tags page, KISS (although nobody here is stupid, so to be clear im not implying that.)
a tag manager: therein with the following basic functionality:
- all tags can be seen on a page such like: blog.tld/foouser/tags
which can be of course, pinned to the top of a blog.
as the basic functionality. even if we just got ----this----- , for now. it would help innumerably.
second part of wishlist: eliminate or squash bug error where you can’t have more than x # of posts tagged with same hashtag, thus creating a faithful list of posts with a certain tag.
therein with respect to the immedate above: i have some tags i use often, say more than 12 times across 2K + posts. foo.tld/foouser/tag:footag will only pull about a dozen of those posts. which, for my readers - is unacceptable.
thanks so much, i hope this reaches you all in good spirits and health.
Would definitely enjoy some form or variant of tag manager.
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