{"id":83,"date":"2007-12-16T03:46:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T07:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_folksonomy\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T00:10:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T04:10:17","slug":"wp_folksonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_folksonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"WP_Folksonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/folksonomy.png\" alt=\"WP_Folksonomy Screenshot\" class=\"right\"\/><p>Aziz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metablog.us\/\">metaBLOG<\/a> suggests that the new tags in WordPress 2.3 can be used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metablog.us\/content\/taxonomy-versus-folksonomy\/\">create a &#8220;folksonomy&#8221;<\/a> on WordPress blogs. For those not in the know (including me until a couple days ago), a folksonomy is <q>is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content<\/q> according to <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folksonomy\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/cite>. Basically it&#8217;s letting normal people (versus say artificial intelligence or an administrator) help describe things. For example, adding a tag on flickr or using del.icio.us.<\/p>\r\n<p>So since WordPress doesn&#8217;t currently have anything like a public &#8220;Add a Tag&#8221; and I haven&#8217;t coded a WordPress plugin recently (although I did upgrade <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/blogger\/wp_monsterid\/\">WP_MonsterID<\/a> if anyone is using it), I thought I would code up a quick plugin to see how it works. So here is <a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy.zip\">WP_Folksonomy<\/a>. It&#8217;s fairly basic at the moment but I&#8217;d like to get it out there to see if it&#8217;s useful and if anyone is interested in it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Since it uses WordPress&#8217;s tagging features WP it&#8217;s only going to be compatible with WordPress 2.3 and up.<\/p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Allow readers (or registered users) to add tags to posts<\/li>\r\n<li>Choose between immediately displaying tags and waiting for admin approval first<\/li>\r\n<li>Delete user submitted tags<\/li>\r\n<li>Delete or approve all tags by user\/IP address<\/li>\r\n<li>RSS feed for monitoring added tags<\/li>\r\n<li>Javascript autocompletion for increased tag standardization<\/li>\r\n<li>Limit tags per time limit to discourage bots<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>Current Version:<\/h3> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.wordpress.org\/plugin\/wp-folksonomy.zip\">WP_Folksonomy v0.8<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Installation instructions:<\/h3> \r\n<p>Unzip <code>wp_folksonomy.zip<\/code>. Upload <code>wp_folksonomy.php<\/code> to <code>wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> and activate in the Plugin Control Panel. Now the slightly difficult part. Unfortunately there is no automatic hook near the tags in WordPress so you&#8217;ll have to make a minor change to one of your theme files. We&#8217;re aiming create a tiny form to allow your users to add tags. Many themes will be using the wordpress <code>&lt;?php the_tags(&#039;some&#039;,&#039;options&#039;);?&gt;<!--formatted--><\/code> to list the tags. Try to find this function or a similar tag listing function. It&#8217;s often either in <code>wp-content\/themes\/CurrenTheme\/index.php<\/code> or <code>wp-content\/themes\/CurrenTheme\/single.php<\/code>. Once you find it add the following code <code>&lt;?php if(function_exists('wp_folksonomy_add_form')) wp_folksonomy_add_form();?&gt;<!--formatted--><\/code> immediately after it. For example in the default WordPress theme, it looks like:<\/p>\r\n<pre>\r\n<code>&lt;?php the_tags( &#039;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &#039;, &#039;, &#039;, &#039;&lt;\/p&gt;&#039;); ?&gt;\r\n&lt;?php if(function_exists('wp_folksonomy_add_form')) wp_folksonomy_add_form();?&gt;<!--formatted--><\/code>\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<p>Sorry it&#8217;s not more automatic but if you&#8217;re having any trouble figuring out where to put it feel free to ask in the comments (make sure to tell me which theme you&#8217;re using). You can view and delete tags from the Folksonomy control panel in Settings or <del datetime=\"2008-05-28T00:06:28+00:00\">a little widget on the dashboard<\/del> an RSS feed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Change Log:<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.8.zip\">v0.8<\/a> 9-22-2008:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Put in a time limit for max tags per time to discourage bots<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.71.zip\">v0.71<\/a> 7-5-2008:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Fixed deleting problem with term_id vs term_taxonomy_id<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.62.zip\">v0.62<\/a> 5-28-2008:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Added caching compatibility<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.61.zip\">v0.61<\/a> 5-28-2008:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Fixed invalid HTML<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.6.zip\">v0.6<\/a> 5-27-2008:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Fixed missing <code>$wpdb-&gt;prefix causing missing table<\/code><\/li>\r\n<li>Fixed installation directions (extra &ldquo;function &rdquo;)<\/li>\r\n<li>Added javascript tag completion<\/li>\r\n<li>Fixed paging on tag display<\/li>\r\n<li>Removed dashboard widget<\/li>\r\n<li>Added an RSS feed for monitoring added tags<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.5.zip\">v0.5<\/a> 12-21-2007:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Fixed undeleteable tags when tag had been created, deleted, created<\/li>\r\n<li>Fixed added tag not displaying on submitter&#8217;s page until after reload in themes with a late call to <code>wp_head()<\/code><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.41.zip\">v0.4<\/a> 12-19-2007:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Approve all tags by user\/IP<\/li>\r\n<li>Delete all tags by user\/IP<\/li>\r\n<li>Tags added within post page (no longer needs $_GET variables)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.3.zip\">v0.3<\/a> 12-17-2007:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Limit tags to 25 characters<\/li>\r\n<li>Only allows users who can edit posts to approve\/delete tags<\/li>\r\n<li>Fixed option update bug<\/li>\r\n<li>When Registered Users options set, only displays tag add form for registered users<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.21.zip\">v0.21<\/a> 12-15-2007:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Fixed overlap between tag add and comment add $_POST variables<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"\/res\/wp_folksonomy_v0.2.zip\">v0.2<\/a> 12-15-2007:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Added Control Panel<\/li>\r\n<li>Added Subscribers Only and Authorize Tags options<\/li>\r\n<li>Tracks submitted tags<\/li>\r\n<li>Added Delete and Accept Tag actions<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>v0.1 12-14-2007:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A rough public tag adder<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aziz of metaBLOG suggests that the new tags in WordPress 2.3 can be used to create a &#8220;folksonomy&#8221; on WordPress blogs. 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