Ever since the first public beta of Wordpress 2.3, a nagging itch had kept me worried — “How and who the hell will tag my old articles?” Tags are awesome but ‘are you sure you have tagged your post effectively?’, ‘will you go back and be able to tag all your older articles?’
Well, I searched for a similar or near-similar plugins which can accomplish this feat of tagging by your reader, and blog visitors. Unfortunately, Google was unable to find me anything I can use. I went ahead and drafted a plan for a custom plugin. I approached few ‘awesome’ Wordpress Plugin developers and about five of them agreed to collaborate with me to come up with a plugin which we can release to the public under the GPL license. The good part was that most the developer were ready to do it for free. With schedule clashes and mis-timings with the other developers; I finally ended up with a kick-ass developer, an IIT-ian — Anirudh Sanjeev.
The development took way longer than anticipated due to many timeline hurdles, project clashes and yes, we got a bit lazy along the way. Fortunately, with a refreshed iteration of the project, a Wordpress Plugin to allow your blog readers and visitors to tag your posts (articles) is ready — “TagThis”.
The release of TagThis (FREE) Wordpress Plugin will also mark the entry of Oinam into Wordpress Consulting on both the design and development front. Some cool designers and Wordpress genius developers have agreed to collaborate in this new endeavor.
DOWNLOAD, MANUAL AND DETAILS
For more details, usage, examples, download, manual and everything else please visit the Plugin’s Homepage at Oinam –
TagThis.
(Btw, here is the direct download link.)
UPDATES
- 2008 1st Feb: Code updated to work with PHP 4 and so you can start adding your favorite and appropriate tags to this and other articles on this site.
- 2008 3rd Feb: Spam protection loosen a bit to allow people test the “tagthis” plugin.
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on Wed, Jan 30th, 2008 at 1:01 am
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Hey Brajeshwar,
I installed TagThis on my blog and it worked fine, except in the admin when I try to view any of the TagThis tabs I get this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /mnt/gs02/herd03/27235/domains/evolve.reintroducing.com/html/wp-content/plugins/tagthis/tagthis_core.php on line 56
is this a problem on my end or the plugin?
Hi Matt,
I’m the developer. Unfortunately you’re running php4 which is not supported at this time, but will be shortly. Please check back within a week.
Anirudh
ah, ok, well that would make sense
Anirudh,
Sorry, don’t mean to spam the blog, but I went ahead and enabled PHP5 on my blog (I have mediatemple so switching between versions is a click away) but now my question is this: can I style the way that the Tag This! button/box are displayed? I’d like to customize how they look a bit more to match my current theme. Thanks in advance and a really cool plugin you’ve developed.
Matt,
I have fixed php4 and is experimentally supported(amazing what a little sleep does to development skills), and I’ll be writing in a guide to customize the widget soon.
Anirudh
Excellent news. Please do post here when the guide is up (I am subscribed to this comment thread so I’ll get e-mail notification). I am reserving using the plugin on my blog until I can customize it just because it looks a bit out of place in its current state
TagThis now supports PHP4. Test adding tags to this article.
Brajeshwar - cheers for the cool Idea and implementation - way to go !
Thanks Tal Galili.
UTW allowed this feature before in the days of dwp dexter. not sure what happened to that now.
Sindhu, UTW allowed this only if you had an admin login.
I’m come from a HK academic library. It is great plugin that the community can add the tag to the post. I have tried it and it looks fine except not supporting Chinese wording. Every word turn to ???. Is it possible the plugin support CJK characters? Thx.
has anyone got tagthis working in WP 2.5?
@Brad Hart
It does work though I think there are some issues. We’re looking into it to straighten any kinks there.
I couldn’t it to function using cut and past script with any of the 2.5 installs I am running. I may be a theme issue, but I still couldn’t get it to work. WOuld it possible to right the code so it puts the if function code into the functions page? I tried sticking the whole line of code there and sure enough it gave me a tag this insert right up at the top left of the page.
I figured out what the problem was. Several places where it says to make code changes to the
I was simply cutting and pasting your code in which left off the final ?> I must have been too tired to catch it…
i’m running on WP2.6SVN Win32 (Xampp-test machine)
just a initial issue:
the pack 0.9.0 at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tag-this/ contain a “tag-this” folder that need to be renamed to “tagthis”.
@Ieso Nagata
Will be looking at that soon.
it would be great if the log would include, if available, the username of who submitted the tag.
think it’s possible? I have tagthis hidden behind a user level condition, so only my editors can submit tags, and I’d like to know exactly who’s adding what.
Thanks, I really like this plugin!
@Adam. That sounds like a good idea. We can in fact have an option to allow the user types in the admin panel of Tag-This. Will look into this.
brilliant concept.
any updates planned?
Nice plugin. I tried adapting it to our site at http://stream.kaplak.com/ but with mixed results.
Brajeshwar, you write in the doc to this plugin :
> The preliminary PHP/AJAX security prevents people from brute forcing several hundred tags at once on your TagThis install.
This seems to be causing me trouble, as I can’t (even if I’m the admin) add several tags in rapid succession to posts on our site, and it decreases the speed by which I and other users are able to tag posts.
I want the tagging treshhold to be low (=1 user), so that tags instantly are added, once a user tags a post. I want moderation to take place after the fact, not before. And I want all our users to be able to tag all they want, so that they can customize the feeds the need from us. This is just to explain how I am using your extension.
Can you give me a pointer to where in the code your aforesaid “preliminary PHP/AJAX security” takes place ? Can’t seem to identify it at a glance. Will glance deeper until I find it, but I thought I’d might as well ask you directly.
@Morten
Thanks for your interest in the plugin.
However, due to other projects that we’re involved in right now, we’re unable to diversity into anything at the moment.
I’d really love if any developer who is interested in this plugin takes it forward.
Thanks for replying so speedily!
Can you give me a small pointer to which file deals with this “time-control of tagging” ?
The plugin doesnt work on Wp 2.6.5 :|, I am really in a need of such plugin..
Will there be any further development? Or release of the code, so others can develop?
Also, you don’t appear to use the plug-in on your own site. That was a tad disappointing. ;]
@ReaderX
We’ve been really busy with other works and the plugin breaks in newer versions of Wordpress at the moment (the reason why it is no longer working on my site).
Please feel free to take it forward by downloading the source.
We’ve an open-source Google Code repo for Tag-This. Email me your gmail ID if you wish to be part there and carry the plugin forward.
Will surely try the Add-on
Btw, What theme is this site using ?
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