Allow Visitors To Tag Your Posts With TagThis

Apr 21 2008 View Comments

tag  TagThis is a neat WordPress plugin that could be summarized as a social tagging system.

Have you ever wanted to go back and tag old posts or maybe even add more tags? TagThis is a great way to get this done. However, TagThis doesn’t just allow the author to create tags, it also allows visitors to help effectively tag articles.

According to the TagThis homepage,

TagThis is a wordpress plugin that allows the community to appropriately tag your posts. It does so by adding a small textbox below a post. The most popular tags are then added automatically to your post, and helps organize your blog. It helps you tag your old posts, or get a large database of relevant tags, and better interaction with the community.

      
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The more a tag is recommended from various users, the higher it’s ranking on an article will be. From the plugin’s option page in your WordPress dashboard, you can see who tagged a post based on their IP address and moderate tags. The plugin also tries to help spam and gives you the option of moderating what could possible be considered "tag spam". An option for blacklisting words or IP is also available.

This is one of the neatest WordPress plugins I’ve ever come across and should be helpful to plenty of authors! My only question would be whether Technorati pays attention to these tags. What do you think?


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  1. Shey Apr 21 2008 at 9:23 pm

    How social! This sounds great — can't wait to see how it works out. Do you plan on installing it?

  2. Corvida Apr 21 2008 at 9:25 pm

    Someone else just asked me the same thing on Twitter. As a visitor of
    SheGeeks, what do you think I should do?

  3. Wayne Sutton Apr 21 2008 at 9:35 pm

    thanks, today has been a good wordpress day, first I found a wordpress 2.5 video reply plugin and now this, cool

    thanks

  4. Shey Apr 21 2008 at 9:50 pm

    I would give it a test run and see how it goes.

    My concern is if you have an SEO plugin installed like All-In-One SEO or Headspace that automatically generates keywords based on tags. From what I've heard, it's best to have a decent # of relevant keywords than a whole big lot of them. Of course, this doesn't matter if you can limit the amount of tags that go popular.

    The great thing is that you're able to moderate it so spammers / mischievous people don't go messing anything up purposefully.

  5. Corvida Apr 21 2008 at 9:55 pm

    I have SEO All-in-One, but I don't have it set to automatically generate my
    tags for articles. I do that manually in Windows Live Writer.

  6. colinwalker Apr 22 2008 at 2:18 pm

    Thanks for linking to this Corvida, think I'll give it a try.

  7. colinwalker Apr 23 2008 at 1:38 pm

    I've removed this now as I thought it made the section below the post too cluttered.

  8. Corvida Apr 23 2008 at 3:44 pm

    There's no way to filter how many tags show up?

  9. colinwalker Apr 23 2008 at 3:47 pm

    It's not just the amount of tags but the fact that you've got so many sections: FF Tag This and actual comments all fighting for attention.

  10. Corvida Apr 23 2008 at 4:44 pm

    There's no way to filter how many tags show up?

  11. colinwalker Apr 23 2008 at 4:47 pm

    It's not just the amount of tags but the fact that you've got so many sections: FF Tag This and actual comments all fighting for attention.

  12. colinwalker Apr 23 2008 at 6:38 pm

    I've removed this now as I thought it made the section below the post too cluttered.

  13. Corvida Raven Apr 23 2008 at 8:44 pm

    There's no way to filter how many tags show up?

  14. colinwalker Apr 23 2008 at 8:47 pm

    It's not just the amount of tags but the fact that you've got so many sections: FF Tag This and actual comments all fighting for attention.

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