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Great New Plugin - Simple Tagging

February 8th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I removed UTW a few weeks ago as it was killing my server and causing issues with WordPress 2.1. I thought I could live without tags, but I was surprised by how many readers asked me to put tags on as they were using the tags to find related articles.

Luckily, Ajay asked me to try out the new Simple Tagging Plugin. I thought UTW was a feature-rich plugin, but Simple Tagging introduces some cool features that UTW doesn’t have. What’s even better is it’s much faster and isn’t killing my server.

Simple Tagging has too many features to list, but here are the ones I’ve found useful:

option to automatically add tags to feed
import tags from UTW or Jerome’s Keywords
Add tags as meta keywords
Auto-suggest tags for posts
Auto-completes tas as you type
Very friendly tag urls -e.g. http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/tag/Advertising

It didn’t take me very long to add the Simple Tagging Plugin to my site, although I’ve still got a few issues to iron out like getting getting it show the pagination on my tag pages and also finding a way to limit how many related tags are shown. Hopefully the plugin author will get back to me soon with a fix.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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#20

Pingback by Plugin Refresh | Connected Internet on 20 January 2008:

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#19

Comment by London on 30 November 2007:

That’s right, pagetemplate.simpletagging.php should be in the themes directory. Maybe we need a guide book on this
#18

Comment by Hard Rock on 27 November 2007:

Or maybe it’s better you follow I comment
#17

Comment by tickets on 30 October 2007:

Hey Vinit. I comment. You follow. I’ll be waiting for that to follow you back.
Well, what were the issues exactly? And did the plugin author get back to you?
Thanks!
#16

Comment by Jasmine on 28 September 2007:

I am currently using the Simple Tagging Plugin in a really interesting way: I am tagging posts with the URL for the company in which the post refers (e.g.Dirty Dancing Tickets) then using those tags to link that post back from a page about that company. I’ve looked over the Related Posts function but it’s a bit confusing for me at the moment - it looks like it’s a good starting point, but I only need the relation off of one tag I specify (not all the tags of the post). Can anyone help me out with this one? Thanks!
#15

Comment by Vinit on 1 September 2007:

I swear man this simple thing was driving me nuts. i searched for hours for the solution.
#14

Comment by Kirk M on 1 September 2007:

Hey Vinit,

LOL, I just replace my heavily modified theme with the original to clean things up a bit and have been adjusting the code accordingly and I the only thing I forgot was to put that page back. I must be getting old.

Glad it worked for you. Noiw maybe I ought to do the same myself right?
#13

Comment by Vinit on 1 September 2007:

finally i got the solution. wht you said is correct — one needs replace the_content code with the_excerpt. but the most imp thing is pagetemplate.simpletagging.php file should be in themes directory.
#12

Comment by Vinit on 1 September 2007:

why the code is not coming?
#11

Comment by Vinit on 1 September 2007:

initial code:

after modification