wordpressplugin:Ultimate Tag Warrior

There’s going to be a revolution, baby

I’ve been tinkering with Ultimate Tag Warrior this weekend; but alas, nothing new in the way of releases. It’s, how you say, “explodey into a million pieces sitting in little piles waiting to be put back together again”.

So far, I’ve built; err.. one of the things on my todo list (tags with spaces). However, I’ve also been restucturing my code quite drastically, so it’s going to be a lot easier to do a bunch of the other items on the list; not to mention any other things that materialise.

(Don’t panic! You’ll be able to use UTW2 without making changes to your themes or anything else – I’m keeping everything I do compatible with UTW1.)

I guess 2.0alpha will be out in the next few days. Failing that, a few days after that.

Ultimate Tag Warrior 1.1.1 1.1.2

There’s a new release at http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/ultimate-tag-warrior/trunk/plugins/ultimate-tag-warrior.php.

It fixes the bugs with the most popular tags list; and it also fixes the bug where /tags/ didn’t work.

You’ll need to update your permalinks for the /tags/ bug, either by going to Options > Permalinks and refreshing; or manually changing your .htaccess file. If you’re doing this manually, you need to change the order of the rules so that the /tags/ rules comes first. I have no idea why this matters; but there you go.

I’ve also added a function for posting to del.icio.us… it’s… not very friendly, in that guard dog will bite your hand off kind of way. I have a feeling that I’m going to have to turn this into a administration function for logged in users; or ask the lovely people at del.icio.us to let the /post/ url accept tags. If you are that interested, by all means have a look.

~~I don’t think I’ve broken anything in the process,~~ but if I have, sing out!

Go with 1.1.2. It turns out I did introduce a bug.

(p.s. with the other bug on my list relating to the previous page link; so far, not so good – I can’t use the post filters to do the SQL voodoo for the intersections of tags; so fixing this so that it always works, all the time isn’t going to be easy…)

Ultimate Tag Warrior: What Next?

This is my current todo list for Ultimate Tag Warrior

* Figure out Joshs’ problem UTW doesn’t play nice with version 1.5 of wordpress. 1.5.1 and beyond are A-OK, though
* Fix the Previous Entries bug (The link always shows, even when there aren’t previous entries) [This, I think will end up waiting until WordPress 1.6 comes out]
* Fix the /tags/ bugs (/tags/(tagname) doesn’t seem to work)
* Fix the really dumb bug in popular tags (Yeah. There’s a dumb bug which makes it break. Whoops!)
* Clean up tags when a post is deleted
* See if I can get UTW to work with ecto
* Write a converter that changes categories into tags
* Write a simplfied document for using UTW (I guess there is a point where too much documentation becomes daunting..)
* Write a thing that consolidates dupe name tags
* Write some things that allow tags with spaces (I’m inclined to structure this in such a way that when you edit tags, you use underscores; but when tags are displayed, they are displayed with spaces instead when it’s appropriate) 2.0a and beyond
* Provide a list of the existing tags on the post-editing screen, and allow clicking tags to lazy-add them 2.0a and beyond
* Write a thing for posting to del.icio.us (The opposite to usual del.icio.us thing.. I’ve kinda written one; but the first time you click on a “post to del.icio.us” link, del.icio.us pops up a OS-esque login box which is a little intimidating. In case you were wondering; it populates the tags with the tags of the post.. just the title/url is pretty trivial to do (: ) [Again, I think wordpress 1.6 will provide enough stuff to let me do this..]
* Make feeds available for tags [wordpress 1.6, I think…]
* Properly localise the plugin
* Allow unions when selecting multiple tags (Scary: allow a combination of unions and intersections)
* Figure out the cause of the 404 error that some people get
* World domination

If you have other suggestions, feel free to leave a comment here; that way it’ll be much harder for me to forget about them.

(*phew* I should have called it “Mediocre Tag Warrior and called it a day at version 1.0 (; )

Ultimate Tag Warrior 1.1

I’ve just released Ultimate Tag Warrior 1.1 into the wild! From here on (and indeed since last week), the latest version of Ultimate Tag Warrior is going to live here: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/ultimate-tag-warrior/trunk/. I’ll keep on announcing new versions of it here, though.

Version 1.1 adds ultimate_show_related_tags(), which will display the tags related to the current tag set. If you are viewing /tag/monkey, it will list all of the tags of the posts that match monkey (except for monkey itself.) If you are viewing /tag/monkey+banana it will list all of the tags of the posts that match both monkey and banana (excluding the monkey and banana tags). Clicking the + beside a tag will add it to the tag set.

Dan ~~made me write this~~ suggested this feature.

Ultimate Tag Warrior 0.1

Version 1.0 is here!

This is the first release of my latest and greatest wordpress plugin Ultimate Tag Warrior. It’s a tagging plugin for wordpress with normalised data (Oooh. Aaaah); and three ways of getting tags back out (Tags on a post, popular tags, and an archive a-la my Category Archive plugin).

Functions
There are three functions worth thinking about (the rest is “don’t mind the man behind the curtain” stuff)

ultimate_show_post_tags($separator=” ”, $baseurl=’http://www.technorati.com/tag/’, $notagmessage = “No Tags”): Display a list of tags associated with the current post.
$seperator is the string that seperates tags. It only appears between tags, and not at the beginning or end of the list.
$baseurl is the base URL to link the text of a tag to. The tag link takes the form {baseurl}{tagname}. The default points to Technorati. The value “/tag/” would link to the local tag page.
$notagmessage is the text to display when a post has no tags.
ultimate_show_popular_tags($limit=10): Display a list of the most popular tags. The tags are wrapped in li html tags, and the number of matching posts is also displayed.
$limit is the maximum number of tags to display.
ultimate_tag_archive($limit = 20, $postlimit=20): The tag version of this plugin