All 5 entries tagged Tags

BB improvements

A new version of Blogbuilder was released this afternoon with a few improvements that hopefully everyone will like…

• As you may have noticed, the home page now displays one of 9 random styles when you go to it (designed by Hannah)
• The auto-tagging feature has been improved to be more specific about which entries it tags, and you can now delete or edit auto-tags on entries. If you have an entry that was accidentally tagged twice, you can now delete one (or both) of them – and this won't happen in future.
• External trackbacks now work again
• There's been a few more improvements to the "insert an image" popup dialog on the create an entry page
• The latest discussions algorithm has been improved to hopefully keep the front page updating more often with new topics – thanks to Colin for some help with the equations involved

Any feedback or comments are always welcome

Mathew Mannion : 02 Feb 2006 17:19 |  Tags: BlogBuilder Tags Update |  Comments (27) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

BlogBuilder update

Follow-up to Modifying image tags from Blogbuilder news

A new version of BlogBuilder was released and deployed this morning, with the following changes and improvements:

• You can now access your blog in any case – so, for example, you've been forced to give out your blog name in lowercase in the past (blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mmannion) but now you can give it out in any arrangement (blogs.warwick.ac.uk/MMannion, blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mMannion) and it should work
• When you click on the "Create entry" hyperlink directly it should take you to a screen that allows you to select from the full range of options for creating an entry. This is mainly for users who don't have JavaScript browsers and so cannot see the dropdown
• There has been a minor tweak where you can still access the dropdown box even when you increase the text size
• You can now tab out of the "Tags" field on the edit entry page, and you should also now see multi-word (with underscore) tags in the suggestions
• The "Edit tags" screen (see previous entry) now includes tags from images.
• You can now select as many tags to see on the sidebar as you want (from Admin -> Appearance)
• Users who aren't logged in have to answer the anti-spam question to send emails to you through your blog

And an update on the problems we've been having with Favourites – we still haven't worked out what the problem is, but we're working on it. It seems to have occurred since we upgraded BlogBuilder to use Java 5 and the latest version of JBoss, which doesn't explain why this is happening, sorry.

Mathew Mannion : 08 Dec 2005 10:20 |  Tags: Administration BlogBuilder Tags Update |  Comments (9) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Modifying image tags

A lot of bloggers who use BlogBuilder regularly may have come across the feature to "Edit your tags" (by clicking Admin from your blog and then Edit your tags from the menu). This allows you to change the name of any of your tags, or to add synonyms where you can add an extra tag to one or more tag (for example, you may want to add the synonym "humour" to all entries you have tagged "funny", "limerick" or "joke").

Currently, this only works for entries, but we're working on making it so that you can do it for images as well – how this can be done is something that we'd like the community to comment on.

Would you:

• Put image tags on the same page, so that images and entries with the same tags are grouped together; or
• Put image tags seperately underneath your entry tags

This implicitly has a second question, if you have, say, 100 entries tagged "Humour" and 50 images tagged "Humour", would you always want a change to one to affect the other? Would you expect that if you changed your entry tag to "Funny" that your images would automatically change to "Funny" too? The tags system at the moment implicitly links from entries tagged something to images tagged the same thing, but it would be interesting to see opinions on this.

Mathew Mannion : 06 Dec 2005 16:57 |  Tags: Administration BlogBuilder Tags |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Tagging fiction

We've had a few enquiries recently from people wanting to know if there is any way to find all the fictional writing on WB, and all the poetry. The answer is that it ought to be possible via tagging, and indeed this seems to work pretty well for poetry; if I view all entries tagged poetry then there are 292 of them which seems like a pretty good result.

Strangely, though, the same approach doesn't work for fiction; there are only five entries tagged as fiction, and 19 tagged story, though the actual number of such entries is much larger. It seems like something of a missed opportunity for fiction authors if people who want to browse this type of content can't easily do so. Could people writing (or who have written) fiction of various sorts consider tagging such entries "fiction"? It seems as if it would be a win for both authors and readers.

John Dale : 29 Nov 2005 17:38 |  Tags: BlogBuilder Tags |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

BlogBuilder update: Tag synonyms

There has been a new release of BlogBuilder today, with the following changes:

New Feature

• You can now get URLs that AND tags together by putting a + between tags in the URL itself, such as http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/showall/tag/movie+review/
• There are now agreed Tag Synonyms so the Top Tags and individual Tag pages now take into account similar tags, for example, when you go to the tag for Movie you will also see tags for Movies, Film and Films, and this is taken into account in how big "Movie" is on the Top Tags page.

Improvements

• The text on galleries has been tweaked slightly
• Posting comments has been tweaked slightly to make it harder to "double-post"
• When you create an entry, it should take you back to the screen that you created it from
• There have been some design changes and fixes – this may make your custom CSS look a bit weird, or it might not.
• You can now select a blank style (for the ultimate custom CSS'ers)

Bug fixes

• The "My Comments" page now sorts like it says it is by default
• The bug where Internal Trackback emails are sent many times has been fixed
• A problem with deleting images that had been uploaded in a Zip file has been fixed
• Tag counts in the sidebar are more accurate.

Mathew Mannion : 23 Sep 2005 15:48 |  Tags: BlogBuilder Tags |  Comments (13) |  Close comments |  Report a problem