Tags
I’ve installed a new plugin to handle Technorati Tags (see About page). As well as inserting the tags into the Atom feed for Technorati’s benefit, Jerome’s Keywords also allows me to perform several useful functions with them on the blog itself:
- A Flickr/Technorati-style ‘tags cosmos’ is now available (top menu) showing the different tags I’ve put on posts, and, like on the aforementioned sites, each tag’s name is adjusted depending on how many posts there are under that tag
- Posts will now display their ‘tags’- either at the bottom of the post text itself or (on single-post permalink pages) in the small paragraph after the post. Clicking on a tag will take you to that tag’s page (much like the category system)
Categories will still be used, but the Tags system gives me greater control over how I organise posts- for example if a particular subject (e.g. Sport) doesn’t get enough posts to justify a category, or will only have posts over a specific time period (e.g. General Election 2005) I can give it a Tag instead.