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Scrap categories in favour of del.icio.us style tagging
Scrap categories in favour of del.icio.us style tagging.
It would be great to be able to tag content rather than categorise it. I find the category set up in TXP
cumbersome, limited and an out of date concept. There have been some noble attempts to address
this with plugins but I feel this should be considered for the core of TXP.
However, I feel that we’re probably stuck with how TXP handles categories.
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#2 2006-03-11 08:10:23
- Mary
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Re: Scrap categories in favour of del.icio.us style tagging
I can tell you that won’t happen – del.icio.us style tagging, that is.
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Re: Scrap categories in favour of del.icio.us style tagging
Yep, I sorta guessed that but it should happen as the category business in TXP
is disappointing for what is otherwise an excellent cms.
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#4 2006-03-12 06:17:09
- stdmedia
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- Registered: 2006-01-05
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Re: Scrap categories in favour of del.icio.us style tagging
It’d just be nice to have the option to do so, not make it manditory. That, in my mind, would be the best comprimise.
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#5 2006-03-12 13:12:41
- Mary
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Re: Scrap categories in favour of del.icio.us style tagging
True tagging (like del.icio.us) is a blog feature, not a general cms feature (in spite of the fact opensourcecms.com calls it blog software, it isn’t). That’s why we have plugins, and in fact, someone has made at least one tagging plugin.
Proper categories, on the other hand, is a general cms feature, which is likely to be made much better than it currently works.
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Re: Scrap categories in favour of del.icio.us style tagging
Mary, thank you kindly for the clarification, appreciated. Can’t wait for the improvements to the ‘proper’ category feature.
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