tru_tags: A tagging plugin for textpattern

truist · 2007-04-28 23:54:39

Thanks for the help, morgant – I’ve released tru_tags v2.3, with support for apostrophes and most other punctuation. It took a lot of work, but you were right that addslashes() was the key. Note that this release does not support double-quotes or tags that mix spaces and dashes (“like this-one”).

Last edited by truist (2008-07-03 11:48:17)

merz1 · 2007-04-29 20:53:52

@Nathan: FYI: tru_tags v2.3 installed, Keywords now show up in admin section fine.

Deactivated that feature again because I have too many keywords :-)

truist · 2007-04-29 23:43:47

merz1 – would Step 8 of the configuration instructions help? It’s there because I thought somebody might have that problem.

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merz1 · 2007-04-30 14:17:05

Yep, it is a workaround. But I don’t want to scroll. The main problem is that the column is too narrow.

Talking about CSS: What about an extra column between advanced options and edit field? Changing the size while editing keywords? Resizeable (How to spell this right?)? Situation: article is ready for publishing and for keyword selection I resize the tru_tags keyword column to have a bigger overview.

Great help would be a hashing function like the del.icio.us plug-in for Firefox has it. Or in other words: auto complete of keywords.

There are many improvements thinkable:

Grouping of keywords: select a group and all keywords go to the keyword field
Thesaurus tree: Select a node in a branch and all following keywords go to the keyword field
For photo sites it would be helpful to select a series of articles by keyword (series ID) and give all articles the same preset of keywords.
Keyword templates: Click and a predefined set of keywords go to the keyword field

All those ideas come from bibliography and metadata photo editing software. I used to work for a photo agency where all those features proved to be very productive enhancements in the editing workflow. Maybe this is the reason why I am used to extensive keywording :-) Check this German page to see a thesaurus layout. a double click on a word on the far right will put all words in that branch into a keyword field (except the most top one to allow a thesaurus top level structure).

This could be a pop-up or DHTML overlay

And again: A keyword replace function working directly on the keyword field in the database would be a great maintenance help too (security: only for publishers/adminstrators and chief editors – or selectable + lock table).

Edit: … or password protected / or an extra plug-in/extension.

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truist · 2007-05-02 00:48:24

merz1 – I’ll think about all that stuff, for the next version :) I still have your original note about tag maintenance, and it’s on my list to do… eventually. It depends on me creating an admin-side ‘extension’ tab, and that feels like work. I’ll get there eventually

Everybody else – I have good news. A recent patch to the 4.0.5 branch of Textpattern will fix a long-standing bug in tru_tags, whereby a tag search for “flow” would also find articles matched “flower”. Woohoo! This should just be automatically fixed when 4.0.5 comes out, without any change on my part. Thanks, ruud!

merz1 · 2007-05-02 11:54:55

@Nathan: I am very satisfied with the current situation but I cross my fingers for future enhancenments. Thanks for keeping the items at least on your list(s) :-)

John Wozniak · 2007-05-12 06:55:02

I am trying to wrap up this site within the next week or so and I have a few nagging issues with functionality I would like to address.

I am not sure why, but the tag cloud does not link to the story as it should.

It’s been a long day – what am I missing/how can I fix this?

Also, what can I do to exclude the static pages from being shown in the recent articles list (they will get buried soon but I would still like to know how to do it – they were created by following the FAQ and have a status of “live” so they are searchable – I imagine this is why they in the recent articles list)?

I appreciate any help a lot.

(Please ignore the things I haven’t yet gotten to styling and the slightly messy markup)

merz1 · 2007-05-12 10:26:32

@John: Unspoken questions are answered immediately. Miracles will take a little longer :-)

Pls. give code examples or link to a page with a list of code examples.

a) The tag cloud does not link to articles but to tag search result pages.
b) On tag search result pages you must have a form to present full articles or excerpts (as you like it). (Edit: Use tru_tags_if_tag_search parameter to get the big cloud or tag search result output/list.)

Edit: Single Tags are comma separated in the keyword field!

Basic code logic on the tag page template goes like this:

<txp:output_form form="header" />
  <txp:if_section name="tag"><!-- optional -->
    <txp:tru_tags_if_tag_search><!-- important -->
      <!-- Consider using txp:output_form form="tag_search_result"
           for complex pages like http://sankt-georg.info/tag/video/ 
           Rule: Always use (nested) forms to keep page templates maintainable ! -->
      <h3>Tag search result for: <txp:tru_tags_tag_parameter striphyphens="1" /></h3><!-- example -->
      <txp:tru_tags_handler form="tagpost" sort="Posted desc" limit="100" />
    <txp:else /><!-- important -->
      <h3>My tag cloud</h3><!-- example -->
      <txp:tru_tags_cloud usereltag="1" showcounts="title" minpercent="80" maxpercent=200" />
    </txp:tru_tags_if_tag_search><!-- important -->
  <txp:else />
    <!-- nothing here = return/exit -->
  </txp:if_section><!-- optional -->
<txp:output_form form="footer" />

OT: Static pages are single sections. Single sections are simply excluded from showing on the default startpage by deactivating that feature in the conten/section admin area. Another way to hide TXP ‘things’ from showing up on TXP pages is to consider using all the beautiful if/else core tags in TXP and the many parameters for all the other available TXP tags. Start to memorize the Alphabetical Tag Listing to realize further TXP ‘miracles’.

Edit: Put your static content simply on the section page template. You can (of course) list single articles with article forms and by ID but in your case I recommend to put the content on the section default page. Calling the section (/work) brings up the static page. Bingo.

Add some standard theme and study (or copy and paste) the ‘txp:tag’ structure. Do not care about the design or CSS. Check out the forms used and extend them.

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John Wozniak · 2007-05-12 11:54:04

merz1 – Those are some fantastic suggestions that I am sure to get to sometime this weekend.

I will post back with an update when I have one.

Much thanks again.

shotoshi · 2007-05-12 16:09:02

Grouping of keywords: select a group and all keywords go to the keyword field

Marcus, fantastic ideas and I particularly like the one above but is this for the admin or public side?

Personally, I’d prefer it for the public side. As my site grows in content it would be a nice feature if my
audience could select a group of keywords (tags) and the search is performed on their selection.

merz1 · 2007-05-12 23:44:21

@John: You are welcome. Don’t expect too many miracles from the forum :-)

Always check twice that TXP tags are closed properly. Otherwise results can be horrible :)

@Sotoshi: “select a group of keywords” – This is answered somewhere at the beginning of this thread. Tru_tags is using core search function. AND search is not provided. OR search is provided: Link to comma separated tags i.e. “/tag/video,media”. Yes, a GUI is missing but as long as TXP core does not provide AND searches it is pretty useless (if you mainatin a bigger site).

Lets wait patiently and see what comes next … Nice weekend to everybody!

truist · 2007-05-15 00:53:18

merz1 – thanks for your help :)

John Wozniak · 2007-05-15 22:43:14

OK, so I have gotten to know tru_tags a little bit better and got it to perform more or less how I would like.

I read the documentation and looked at keep and sort.

This is what I have: function tru_tags_get_standard_cloud_atts($atts, $isList, $isArticle) { return lAtts(array('wraptag' => ($isList ? '' : ''), 'break' => ($isList ? '' : ' '), 'class' => '', 'breakclass' => '', 'section' => '', 'minpercent' => '100', 'maxpercent' => ($isList || $isArticle ? '100' : '200'), 'showcounts' => '', 'countwrapchars' => '[]', 'usereltag' => ($isArticle ? '1' : ''), 'generatelinks' => '1', 'mintagcount' => '0', 'maxtagcount' => '1000', 'setsizes' => ($isArticle ? '0' : '1'), 'usenofollow' => '', 'sort' => '', 'useoverallcounts' => '', 'setclasses' => ($isArticle ? '0' : '1'), 'title' => '', 'listlimit' => '', 'keep' => 'random', 'cutoff' => 'chunk', 'texttransform' => 'none', 'linkpath' => '', 'linkpathtail' => '', 'filtersearch' => '1', 'excludesection'=> '', 'activeclass' => 'tagActive' ),$atts, 0); }

For some reason if I put keep=“random” inline it doesn’t show up random and also I tried through editing the above to get it to be random.

I would prefer to not have it inline because I want the tag cloud (at least for now) to appear the same everywhere and want it abstracted as much as possible.

I am sure it is something simple, but I don’t have that much left to go and appreciate the help a lot – I have so many details to tend to.

Thanks.

truist · 2007-05-16 00:15:29

John – random only applies if you have a listlimit set, and then only if the listlimit is smaller than the number of tags in the default cloud. I’m not sure what it would mean to have the complete tag cloud be ‘random’ – are you just looking for a random sort?

John Wozniak · 2007-06-05 21:06:49

So I am getting ever closer to being happy with the way my TXP install functions and hoping to go live soon.

One of the few issues left I would like to understand and address is the fact that if you have a link to a tag that does not exist (from an article that was deleted or the tag is incorrect for some other reason) it goes to a blank page, rather than the error page I have setup. Is there a way to get some error message, or my default error page to come up if the user has an URL with a tag that no longer exists (the story was deleted)?

Working link to tag

Incorrect tag URL that goes to empty page

My regular error page

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