September 07, 2005

Wed 07 Sep 15:47

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:  |  Comments (13) |  Report a problem

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  1. Hooray

    07 Sep 2005, 15:49

  2. *goes and mopes until you do the tag selecting feacture

    07 Sep 2005, 15:50

  3. I'd kind of like to be able to access my untagged entries from the sidebar thanks. They were in my general catagory for a reason.

    07 Sep 2005, 16:00

  4. My tags are in white writing on a white background… Also I'd like to be able to edit them as well as there are some categories which I feel deserve higher precedence. Thank you.

    07 Sep 2005, 16:19

  5. Mathew Mannion

    Argh sorry Holly, I'll fix that up for you.

    Also I'd like to be able to edit them as well

    In the pipeline. Didn't I say that?

    Yes, yes I did.

    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

    07 Sep 2005, 16:23

  6. Mathew Mannion

    Okay Holly, should be fixed now (you might need to press ctrl-f5 on your blog to get the new stylesheet), sorry about that.

    07 Sep 2005, 16:37

  7. Yey! Thank you for easily the best and promptest service I've experienced all day. Can you do real magic and get South Central to reopen and give me sandwiches of joy again?

    07 Sep 2005, 16:37

  8. Mathew Mannion

    Alas not. I wish people would stop coming to campus, they're parking in all my spots.

    I can do real magic though.

    07 Sep 2005, 16:39

  9. oh great, 40 stylesheets to update, again.

    07 Sep 2005, 16:46

  10. Mathew Mannion

    Only 10, actually, and it's pretty easy to do a find/replace #categories for #tags

    07 Sep 2005, 16:51

  11. which styles?

    07 Sep 2005, 16:55

  12. Mathew Mannion

    toned1,2,3, curvycat, curvymono1, curvymono2, simplegreen, retro, maybe a couple of others I forgot. I just used Crimson Editor to do a Find In Files (ctrl-shift-F) over a whole directory

    07 Sep 2005, 16:56

  13. Excellent. Much better.

    07 Sep 2005, 17:23

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