Posts Tagged ‘tagging’

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If you’re using TagPiG to automate your post tagging you may also be using it’s publish feature to display the generated tags on your blog and feeds. It’s a very powerful feature but I’ll go into detail on that more in another post.

Today I wanted to mention one of the issues that can arise when you use the TagPiG publish feature. Increasingly WordPress theme designers are embedding tag code into their templates. If you then go and turn TagPiG publishing on you’ll end up with 2 sets of tags listed below each post.

To get things working correctly you’ll need to take the embedded tag code out of you template first and leave all the tag management to TagPiG. It’s a pretty easy job but you will need to edit a little code.

You can either edit your templates directly using notepad or even you FTP client but perhaps the easiest way is to use WordPress iteself to edit them in place on you blog.

In WordPress 2.7+ Admin area go to Appearance > Editor in the sidebar. Make sure your active theme is chosen in the dropdown box. You will probably see the following message at below the editor screen:

You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes.

The 2 files we need to focus on are index.php and single.php. Go into your FTP client and change the permissions on these files to 777 (CHMOD 777).

Now in the WordPress Editor select ‘Main Index Template (index.php)’ from the list on the right. If you don’t get a large blue update button below the edit window, something has gone wrong so go back and check the permissions on the two files in your FTP editor.

Scroll down through the file looking for the following code:

<?php the_tags( __( ‘Tagged’ ) . ‘: ‘, ‘, ‘, ”); ?>

It may not look exactly like this but it’s ‘the_tags’ you’re looking for really. Once you’ve found it remove everything between and including the nearest <? and ?> tags. Hit the ‘Update File’ button.

Repeast this process for the ‘Single Post (single.php)’ page and remove the_tags element. Don’t forget to the update the file.

Now go back into your FTP and reset the file permissions to 644.

That’s it, you’re done. You can use TagPiG as your only tag publisher, giving you much more control over how they appear and how many are displayed.

Due to popular demand I have decided to start releasing a selection of the BlogPiG plugins under GPL license. The first to be launched is TagPiG our WordPress AutoTagger.

TagPiG is an auto-tagging plugin for WordPress. TagPiG has been designed to overcome the manual bottle-neck by completely automating your tagging process. Here are some of the key features of TagPiG:

• Automatic post categorisation
• Automatic tag publishing
• Automatic tag filtering
• Automatic internal linking of common tags
• Automatic tag rotation

TagPig is simple to install and setup on your WordPress blogs. Once the plugin is activated it will run in the background, silently categorising, tagging and linking your blog posts automatically. With TagPiG installed you get all the great benefits of tagging without any of the additional manual overheads.

You can get an immense amount of benefit from correctly tagging all of your blog posts. Tags not only help you organize large quantities of content, but they also help define your site as a whole. If you post good content and you consistently tag every post you make with maybe 5-10 relevant keywords then, over time, your blog will become a very valuable resource to people interested in those keywords. They can actually come to your blog and get better, more reliable, less spammy, more focused search results than by doing a Google search! While this all sounds very desirable in theory the extremely manual nature of categorising and tagging blog posts has been a major bottle-neck for webmasters who build a lot of blogs and/or post to them frequently.

By Using TagPiG to automate your tagging will:

• Deliver additional keyword density into your blog posts
• Expand the keyword reach of new blog posts
• Get traffic boosts from Technorati and other tag aggregators
• Thematically organise your blog posts
• Provide an intelligent internal linking structure for your blog

TagPig has a comprehensive pdf user manual detailing every aspect of it’s setup, configuration and installation.

You can download TagPiG immediately here…

“Find me a blog that isn’t using tags and I’ll show you an autoblog.”

Tagging is a superb way of theming your blog posts to allow readers and search engines a quick easy way to categorise your content. Until now tags have generally been beyond the reach of the autoblogger simply because categorising your posts takes time.

Imagine adding 10 posts per day across 100 blogs and then having to add 10 tags per post by hand. That’s 10,000 tags! It’s not going to happen!

Because of the manual nature of tagging you won’t normally see tags on any autoblogs. I’d hazard a guess that this obvious difference provides a simple way for search engines to identify and discount autoblog rankings.

TagPiG closes this gap by giving autobloggers a complete auto-tagging solution for their blogs. Simply activate the plugin and you’re ready to go, every new post to your blog will be analysed and tagged with 100% accurate, on-target keywords.

TagPiG is currently available completely free grab it now…