Jerome's Keywords 1.4

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Projects — 13-Mar-2005 23:44

Just a quick note to announce the latest release of the “Jerome’s Keywords” plugin for WordPress 1.5. The new version fixes a few (minor) bugs and adds some requested features. The coolest part is that I’ve hooked it into WordPress’ rewrite rules code, which means that .htaccess rules can be updated automatically. This also fixes problems seen when using the index.php/%blah% style of permalinks.

The short list:

  • Improved permalink handling for tag searches.
  • Automatic .htaccess rule generation.
  • the_keywords() now accepts parameters for formatting if you want to get fancy.
  • Fixed XHTML validation bug and handling of tags containing forward slashes ( / ).
  • Temporary workaround for conflicts with the mini-posts plugin.

Thanks to everyone who sent me feedback, found bugs and suggested new features. Keep ‘em coming! The only request that didn’t make this release was adding an options page — I’m still not decided on that one. Also, a special award for bravery goes to Dave Metzener for beta testing the new permalink/rewrite code.

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  1. You mentioned a tag cosmos plan for the future, and I think that this is a phenomenal plan.

    N. — 17-Mar-2005 14:20

  2. Yes — they’re a lot of fun to look at, aren’t they? I have some other projects to work on first, but I’ll add it to the list for the next release.

    jerome — 17-Mar-2005 15:36

  3. I’m such a huge fan of this plugin. I’m going through all my archives and tagging my posts right now. What I would love to see is a separate page which lists all tags with the font size based on usage - like what flickr does here. I think someone has already done it for categories in WordPress, but with tags it would be amazing.

    Thanks so much for the plugin!

    oso — 20-Mar-2005 17:01

  4. I shoulda looked for this before commenting. Check out the bottom of his post - he’s got a weighted list of categories and tags, except that the links to the tags bring up a 404. Still, maybe it would be a place to start?

    oso — 20-Mar-2005 17:11

  5. Thanks, oso! Like I metioned above, a tags cosmos function is in the works for version 1.5 — you’ll be able to add it to any page you like.

    jerome — 20-Mar-2005 18:53

  6. Don’t know if this was intentional, but if something is tagged “alphabet” it shows up for the tag “alpha” “phab” “bet.” Essentially if the letter combination appears in the tag it shows up. I actually like this feature, as unexpected as it was.

    N. — 23-Mar-2005 08:12

  7. Truth be told, it’s a side-effect of the way I chose to store tags in the database. I like this feature too, since it allows you to match compound tags: a search for “alphabet” or “soup” will also return posts tagged with “alphabet soup”.

    jerome — 23-Mar-2005 09:42

  8. How close are you to version 1.5 anyway? I’m anxiously awaiting it. That tag cosmos is going to be so fun to have.

    N. — 23-Mar-2005 13:33

  9. N.: At the time of your comment, 1.5 was still in the conceptual stage. I can’t resist a challenge, however, so I whipped up the “tags cosmos” which you can see in action.

    Note that this is an early alpha of 1.5 - grab it here if you’re curious.

    Just put all_keywords() into your template, add some styles and you’ll be up & running. The function outputs a series of list items of the format
    <li class="cosmos keyword%count%"><a href="/tag/%keylink%">%keyword%</a></li>. You can change this around and the variables in between % signs will get filled in automatically. Have fun!

    jerome — 23-Mar-2005 21:45

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  11. This is a great plugin Jerome, and is just what I’ve been looking for, but I appear to be having problems getting the ‘tag results’ and ‘tags cosmos’ to work, though.

    I’ve tried creating my own keywords.php file, but the code seems to have got the better of me (and it’s probably so simple to get working!).

    Will you be including such a file with the next update, or is there a working sample file available that can be tweaked layout-wise?

    Much appreciated if anyone could offer some help.

    Paul — 25-Mar-2005 19:36

  12. Paul, for the “tag results” page you should start from your search.php template. Here is a quick mod of the Kubrick/default search page: keywords.php

    The “tags cosmos” can be done in many ways. Note that you have to be using the alpha version linked in my comment above. To create mine, I made a page called “tags” and assigned it to a special page template (”CosmosPage”) that calls the function all_keywords() but basically does nothing else. Here is another sample template for Kubrick/default: cosmos.php

    Hope that helps!

    jerome — 25-Mar-2005 21:59

  13. Jerome, thanks for the quick reply! The files you provided helped out no end!

    I don’t have mod_rewrite enabled, so some slight tweaking was needed. I’ve finally got everything working now, though, and it’s just a case of going through and adding the tags to my posts.

    The cosmos looks awesome so far, and is a really useful way of seeing what topics you cover the most.

    Thanks once again for such an excellent plugin!

    Paul — 26-Mar-2005 11:27

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