Tagging for Typo

Posted by Scott Laird Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:03:35 GMT

Now that Typo 2.5.0 is out, it’s time to get back to hacking new features into Typo. I’m starting with tags. It’s amazing how easy Typo is to work with–I’m only a few hours into this, and I can almost see the end already. Here’s a screenshot of the tag sidebar:

Tags in typo

It’s not complete, but it seems to work well enough for me. I’ve added a new tagging infrastructure, and I’ve spent some time learning how Rail’s test system works. At the moment, I’m populating the tags via the keywords field–that lets me edit them directly from Ecto. I’m going to extend Typo’s built-in admin interface to show a keywords field for now, but not add a method for directly manipulating tags. Later, I’ll come back and add del.icio.us-like autocompletion and a way to rename and merge tags.

I haven’t bothered merging my tags into Technorati or anything yet. So far, they’re just an alternative to categories; we can look at interactions with other sites once tags get merged into the Typo trunk.

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  1. Jeevan said about 2 hours later:

    Looks great. :)

  2. Scott Becker said about 6 hours later:

    awesome, you are the man!

  3. Bob Aman said 6 days later:

    Any expectations on how soon until tags are merged into the trunk?

    /me wants this badly.

  4. Scott Laird said 6 days later:

    I’m thinking next week–I’d like 2.5.3 to settle out a bit first before we start in on 4.0.

  5. Bob Aman said 8 days later:

    Woah… we’re skipping 3.0 entirely?

  6. Scott Laird said 8 days later:

    Typo 3.0 conflicts with Typo3

  7. robert said 2 months later:

    Hi,

    is this feature available anywhere for other people to try?

  8. Scott Laird said 2 months later:

    It’s in the current development tree for Typo. Go to http://typo.leetsoft.com and check it out.

  9. Ryan said 5 months later:

    So, now that tags is in the typo trunk, when will we see greater functionality? (ie. some sort of auto-tag method that doesn’t require you to label your posts – maybe by indexing all the words in all post titles)

  10. Scott Laird said 5 months later:

    That’s not exactly tagging to my mind–it’s really more of an index. The current search code shouldn’t have a problem digesting titles and finding specific words for you. I see tagging as more of a form of classification, directed by a human.

    Does anything out there actually auto-generate tags from something like this? Does it accomplish anything useful? I’d love to see an example.

  11. drazin said 5 months later:

    wheres it at?

  12. Scott Laird said 5 months later:

    It’s in the Typo trunk. Go to http://typo.leetsoft.com.

  13. Ajay said 5 months later:

    Hey, I’m setting up typo now and trying to figure out the difference between tags/keywords and categories. It seems like the functionality is being replicated; I don’t see the difference between the two. Also, when you can allow pings for an individual post, those are trackbacks, right? They shouldn’t be called two different things in two different places if they’re the same thing. Finally, is there any documentation for typo anyplace? The installation FAQ on the leetsoft page will not suffice for most people.

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