All entries for Wednesday 07 September 2005

BlogBuilder update: Tags

Today there have been a number of changes to the way BlogBuilder works, which have been outlined below:

Categories are dead. Long live Categories Tags!

Since Tags have been introduced, it has become plainly clear that they are a more powerful version of categories (you can do everything that you could with categories with a tag, and more, such as adding multiple tags to an entry) and as a result categories have been removed to help in system simplicity. This means, that among other changes:

• On your old posts, any categories that you had are now a tag
• "Categories" on your sidebar have been replaced with your "Top 5 Tags", which show your five most used tags
• "Top Categories" has now become Top Tags as is mainly different in that it's now actually useful because it counts the number of entries with a specific tag, rather than the number of blogs with a specific category.
• The "Create Entry" screen has been tidied up somewhat and looks cleaner
• When you subscribe to another blog, you don't subscribe to posts out of a specific category, you subscribe to posts out of a specific Tag.
• There is a new "Edit your tags" screen in blog options, where you can Edit your tags (so you use popular tag names for related entries), add Synonyms to your tags (so if you have tags for joke and limerick, you might want both of them to have a synonym of Humour) or delete a tag

Miscellaneous Other Changes

• The "Appearance" page in your Blog Admin settings has now been split into two pages – Appearance and Settings, to be more intuitive.
• The PDP entry options should now appear for all students, even Holly.
• There's tag and image counts on the front page
• Chinese Characters should now work in Tags

Known Issues

• When you click on a Chinese-Character tag to see all the entries for it, it won't work – this is a known issue and should be fixed in the next release. Sorry.
• There is a known issue with posting comments that causes them to be very slow – please be patient, comments ARE working but take time, and this will be fixed soon hopefully

We realise at the moment there is a debate about whether categories should have been removed, and at the moment there is no feature to select which tags appear in your sidebar (by default, it is your five most used tags), but this feature is on the way – this is an interim stage to make sure everything is perfectly in place before the start of term.

Mathew Mannion : 07 Sep 2005 15:47 |  Tags: BlogBuilder |  Comments (13) |  Close comments |  Report a problem