So I just upgraded the site to Movable Type 3.3 (let me know if you see anything wrong) and its most talked about feature is its native support for “tagging”. We here at Hell Yeah Bitch! .com have been tagging all of our articles for some time now with two different hacks in place to get it to work. I was interested in how Movable Type was going to handle them, and I have to say, I don’t like it. Basically, I think they made it too complicated. Our current system just allows you to input tags, separated by commas, in to the Keywords field and then PHP on the front page and on the archives pulls the keyword field and parses them into tags on the page. Movable Type seems to turn them in to separate categories and puts them in a separate table. To me, it seems like far too much effort. Hell, this site runs on a hybrid of Movable Type and PHP code written by yours truly, so for now Hell Yeah Bitch! .com will be staying with our own tagging method. I’m sure there are some other features to Movable Type 3.3 around here somewhere, but getting the site back to 100% and tagging were 2 most important ones.

Has anyone had more experience with Movable Type 3.3′s tags and want to tell me I’m wrong or shine some light on the situation?