Would having to enable a handful of plugins be completely irritating? Would it be confusing?

(So you’d have the core-UTW plugin with, say, a simple formatting plugin and the geegaw tag-interface; or perhaps core-UTW with fine grained formatting and a textbox tag-interface (ooh! or one suited to Asian language); or maybe you’d enable some kind of import/export plugin to do that task as you need it, then disable it once complete; or all sorts of things)

So, uh, feedback would be nice (:

• The thing with tags being eaten by the wordpress 2.1 beta by comment-actions ought to be fixed.
• The thing where atom feeds were coming back invalid because of a mix of dc:subject and category tags.
• The thing where bbPress and UTW wouldn’t play nice because UTW had a is_tag function, and bbPress had one too. [If UTW sees that the is_tag function already exists, it isn't declared; and there's a is_utwtag function that bbPress users can use instead. Yeah.]

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• The bug in wordpress 2.1 which caused tags to vanish when a comment was made has been fixed Turns out that if you add a comment, it’s fine; but if you approve one, the tags will still vanish. Hrmpf.
• I’m pretty sure you won’t end up with double-tags in feeds, any more
• I’ve rejigged the way tags are added to feeds
• Tag intersections should be working properly again
• Tags can be added to pages (and will be included in tag cloud counts… displaying on tag pages, though…)
• No more XSS vulnerability with the ajax URL parameter
• There’s an invisible technorati tags format, now! (Handy for using with the automagically include tags on the Options > Tags page)
• Search includes tags [I worry about this bit! let me know if you see anything weird]

I’ve tried it using wordpress versions 2.0.4, 2.0.7 and a 2.1 beta; and it seems to work in all three (:

Attention WordPress 2.1 beta users!

http://082net.com/ says:

Here’s a temporary patch for resetting tags.
Modify ‘ultimate_save_tags()’ function on ‘ultimate-tag-warrior-actions.php’ about line 502:
if (isset($_POST['comment_post_ID'])) return $postID;
if (isset($_POST['not_spam'])) return $postID; // akismet fix
if (isset($_POST["comment"])) return $postID; // moderation.php fix

This seems to work.

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Behold, the long awaiting next version of Ultimate Tag Warrior. There are three new and important things to ogle at:

- Mark wrote a thing which caches tags, so a whole-bunch less database queries will take place. Thanks Mark! (:
- There’s a shiny new option (on the options page) which will automatically include the appropriate tags in a meta keyword field, in the page header.
- I think I’ve fixed the thing with tag suggestions that was causing javascript errors for people. (Also, you can push both buttons and both sets of tag suggestions will display)

- There’s also a new predefined format that will create a tag cloud in the form ordered list of coloured/sized tags. It’s called tagcloudlist. It’s not as important as the other three, but someone wanted one, so there you go.

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There’s a new version! I’ve made some changes to tag suggestions – tagyu suggestions work again, for reals; and I’ve gone backwards, and yet forwards, so you can now choose whether you want suggestions from tagyu, or the yahoo! term extraction API.

If you have been using simple tags, you can now do a mass import of your tags, from the Manage > Tags page. (I have a feeling that if you tinker with the start and end delimiters, you could probably get it to do an import of generic tags…but I haven’t done it myself (: )

So yeah (: Download here, Support forum here; let me know if you need a WordPress 1.5 version! (I’ve had mostly WordPress 2.0 downloads, so I’m inclined to wait for a request for a 1.5 version)

Apparently, I haven’t done a release of my plugin for a while. I just had a look at a diff between the new version, and the old version, and it’s terrifying trying to figure out what has changed (:

At the moment, I’ve only made a WordPress 2 version. If you need a WordPress 1.5 version, let me know and I’ll make the little changes that it needs.

- You can specify the text to display when there are no tags through the Options > Tags page
- The plugin isn’t requesting option values anywhere near as often (although this is less problematic in WordPress 2.0.1 than it was in WordPress 2.0)
- The plugin does a bunch o’ internal caching which has knocked the number of database queries way down
- I’ve made a couple of changes to streamline new installs (People hosted by Yahoo! had a database permission issue which prevented the automagic updating taking place; along with a couple of other stray issues that people used to ask about (: )
- There’s a lot more type checking/character stripping of user data (side effect of this, is that you can’t have apostrophes or quotes in your tags any more)
- I’ve included some examples for theme-type stuff you might want to do – adding the tags to the title in the header, creating a tag cloud page, a tag archive page (the one that lists the posts for a tag), and an interactive search page (it requires UTW 3. If you don’t have wordpress installed in the root folder, you’ll need to adjust the path to the ajax receiving page.. it’s near the top. You’ll see it)
- You can have embedded tags – if you are using Flock, Ecto, or any other not-wordpress way of adding posts, you can use [tags]comma, list of, tags[/tags] syntax to add tags to a post. [tag]single tag[/tag] can be used within your posts, and will magically turn into tag links when the post is displayed. (You can do this using the wordpress post adding screen too (: ) You do need to enable this on the Options > Tags page.
- There are all sorts of little stray bug fixes here, there and everywhere – Tidy tags works again; ampersands are no longer a problem in feeds; the tag box doesn’t have extra close div tags; and this plugin should no longer conflict with the Static Front Page plugin.

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Sometimes you take steps forwards, and then you take steps backwards.

In the WordPress 2.0 version of the plugin, I’ve moved the tag-entering bit back to how it was previously – the way I had it, to get it to work was a flakey-flakey thing which caused problems which far out-weighed its usefulness.

I’ve updated the help (I think!), to include the last few versions worth of changes.

And fixed a few other bugs here and there (:

Support Forum | Ultimate Tag Warrior 2.9.2.1, for WordPress 2.0 | Ultimate Tag Warrior 2.9.2.1, for WordPress 1.5

Notfixes!
- In wordpress 2, tag names with apostrophes are problematic. If things are broken, try renaming those tags.
- There’s still work to be done with special characters.
- I’m still not sure about .htaccess/rewriting issues in wordpress 2.

Support Forum | Ultimate Tag Warrior 2.9.1, for WordPress 2.0 | Ultimate Tag Warrior 2.9.1, for WordPress 1.5

Beware:
- There are new options which might cause wonky behaviour (mostly just automatically included tags appearing) – go to the Options > Tags page and hit save to make ‘em vanish.

New Features:
- If there are database permission issues that prevent the auto-updater from running, you won’t see error messages all over the place (but if you do a force-reinstall they will display)
- Related posts are sorted by most tags in common, then most recent first (previously it was just most tags in common order)
- Tag urls are now url-encoded (duh.) – this allows using umlats and other such things (at least in the way I tried (; including ü in your tags works, using magical characters directly is a bit bung still)
- Lists of posts can now include the date of the post (uses the %postdate% formatting placeholder, and the default date format)
- UTW_Show functions have changed a little – the first parameter still takes the name of a predefined format; but if you pass in custom formatting information, it will be added to the predefined format.
- The Options > Tags page has a whole bunch of embedded help. Yay help.
- The automatically included links can now be placed either before or after the content. There’s also the option to add text before and after the tags (handy for Tag: labels, wrapping tags in spans or divs and wrapping html lists in <ul> tags)
- I’ve fixed an odd bug with feeds (it worked for me, but didn’t for a couple of people.. it’s just one of those bugs, I guess)
- [Wordpress 2 only] On the write post screen, the tag entry and tag suggestion boxes have been shuffled into the right-hand column and put into magical boxes for shuffling and hiding and whatnot.
- There’s a new template function, UTW_ShowRSSFeedIcon(). It displays an RSS icon on tag pages for the current tag set (if you’re viewing /tags/tag1 it’s a link to the tag1 feed. On /tags/tag1+tag2 it’s a link to the feed with posts tagged both tag1 and tag2).
- The UTW_AddTagToCurrentPost() has an extra parameter – it allows specifying the minimum user level that you need in order to add tags. It defaults to 3.

Things I haven’t forgotten:
- The ability to exclude tags from displaying in tag clouds and on posts
- The gadabe issue with … in tag links
- Cobbling together a non-includey version
- Displaying tag clouds for a subset of tags (For facetish purposes)

If there are things I have forgotten, let me know (: I get forgetful sometimes..

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(The issue with new posts in wordpress 1.6/2b has been fixed; along with an odd bug that Bill found with 404s and a weird plugin interaction; and it adds the core functionality needed for the experimental search)

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Update: Tag Search thingy! Download the tag search page; add it to your theme (and make changes as necesary… uh; if you have UTW installed in a different place, you’ll need to tweak the ajax url.. this is just an example!!! (: ); Create a new page, and use the Tag Search page template.

The tag search thing does depend on using version 2.8.8 of UTW.