Wanted: Tagging mod for articles...

[pcoskat]

I would like to have a field in the 'add a new article' screen for 'tags or keywords' for each article.

From an end user perspective, each article would display the 3 or 4 tag/keywords which would be hyperlinks. Clicking on a link would return search results for additional articles with that same tag/keyword.

Can anyone do this?:confused:

[HeavyEddie]

I would like to see something like this as well.

[pcoskat]

Personally I think it's essential for any true 'content management' system, since it helps admins MANAGE content, and helps end users NAVIGATE content.

When I turned 'tags' on in my blog, the page views went up dramatically.

(A tag cloud would be great, too - but I can live without it ;) )

[Pixelrage]

I requested this on Subdreamer.com because I want this worse than badly, I think they are considering it for the next release (but that was before Saturday's new release, so I dont know).

[SSSlippy]

The article system has the tags already. Outputting them as links shouldnt be to hard.

The search spider does not work off the url. If DGN has a way we can input this into spider. Im assuimg we can auto generate links if the keywords are stored seperately.

[pcoskat]

I want this worse than badly...

Me, too!

If anyone is willing to take a stab at this, let me know.

[spib]

So would a standalone tag cloud plugin which used the article keywords to generate the cloud suffice?

[pcoskat]

So would a standalone tag cloud plugin which used the article keywords to generate the cloud suffice?

Do you mean 'instead of' the tags in the footer? If that's what you mean - my answer is 'no, that wouldn't suffice'.

If you mean a stand alone tag cloud IN ADDITION to clickable tags in the footer, my answer is 'yes' :)

[SSSlippy]

I think I understand what pcoskat wants. If you go to break.com and view one of their movies on the right column u will notice keywords that are clickable that do searches.

[HeavyEddie]

So would a standalone tag cloud plugin which used the article keywords to generate the cloud suffice?

I think this should be setup similar to the comment system. This would allow tags to be created for any valid plugin. This way a cross-content search would be very easy to perform. Wow... powerful stuff.

[spib]

Well anything which requires changes to the Subdreamer core will not be something which you get soon because we just did a major update and our next focus is improving existing plugins (that's not to say that I don't think your ideas are not good or valid - heavyeddie's in particular sounds very appealing). A standalone plugin which is only available on sd.org can be done quickly.

[pcoskat]

I think I understand what pcoskat wants. If you go to break.com and view one of their movies on the right column u will notice keywords that are clickable that do searches.

That's exactly it!:D

[pcoskat]

A standalone plugin which is only available on sd.org can be done quickly.
Soooooo, I can look for the TAG PLUG IN when?? Next week?? :p

[Pixelrage]

tomorrow, of course :D

[pcoskat]

tomorrow, of course :D

"Yesterday" is even better :)

BTW, here's another example of an article in ONE category, but with FOUR tags:

http://gigaom.com/2006/10/24/t-mobile-uma/

[william]

I wasn't quite understanding this, but that example helped and now I am all over that idea...how cool!!! I hope it would be simple to implement and use.

[pcoskat]

I wasn't quite understanding this, but that example helped and now I am all over that idea...how cool!!! I hope it would be simple to implement and use.

William, to see an example of a 'tag cloud', click here:
http://www.lime.com/

Scroll to the bottom of the page and look in the RIGHT hand corner for a box with the header: Top Topics

Those are all the tags from recent articles.

[Pixelrage]

alternately, see how they're used on Answers.com, Wikipedia.org and Youtube.com

[pcoskat]

He Spib -

Are you really going to try to do this? Please let me know. (I REALLY need this...)

[abcohen]

well the price quotes I've seen is 300-400 for this mod on a public release - I'll pony up the first 25

[spib]

Hey Guys,

It's not as easy as I first thought :) Building the tag cloud or links is pretty easy but making those links pull up the correct articles as a list is harder - it almost ends up being a 'Latest Articles' plugin. Also, the tag cloud or links would probably need to be in a different position on the page than the results - e.g. the cloud would be in the menu column on the left and the results would appear in the center of the page - this requires two plugin positions and therefore two plugins!

I'm not sure where to go with this. I may release two plugins which achieve this as a starting point and then build some of this functionality into the 'Latest Articles' or 'Search Engine' plugin at a later date. Either way it will be free to licensed Subdreamer users

Will keep you posted.

[robert_p_skold]

If you used the plugin in conjuction with the search engine could you pass the variables to the search engine? This would eliminate creating the other plugin.

[spib]

Yes that's what i had in mind

[william]

Why not take it a step futher and us DgN's search sphider as it can also go through integrated forums as well....you know it will just be a matter of time after the tagging cloud comes out that it will be reqested as a mod.

[pcoskat]

Some of what you guys just mentioned sounds like Greek to me...

I hate to be selfish, but at the end of the day, I don't really need a tag cloud, or integration with the 'sphider' (since I don't even know what that is.)

I just need some clickable tags :D

(and I need them BAAAAAADLY! ;) )

[Pixelrage]

IMO, this would only effectively work as a core addon. It would probably be a little sloppy to include as a plugin that is seperate from the article. I look at some websites out there, and I have no idea how they do it (like answers.com - it looks like every article has its own dedicated template)...