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Movable Type 3.3′s Tags

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Mike

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?

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Hell Yeah Bitch! .com embraces “tags”

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Mike

You might have noticed yet another thing I have added to the bottom of every post. There is now a listing of different “tags” that pretain to that article. Tags are simply keywords that the author decided pretained to that post. Clicking on any of them will send you to the search script here at Hell Yeah Bitch and show you other articles that mention or pretain to that tag. I have slightly updated the search script (much bigger updates comming soon) to search for the tags as well as the body, title, and category, so if you want more articles on “tags” just put that in the search and everything that has anything to do with it will pop up.

The other aspect of adding tags to every post here in the future is that we have no gotten into bed even more with Technorati as they will scan our posts and if you search of a certain tag at Technorati, the posts here will come up in those results.

I made the decision to work with a little, but mainly leave the current set of categories largly unchanged. The tags are just extra categorization within each “main” category.

Let me know if you like it and if you have any suggestions on how to make it better. (Now I just have to remember to start “tagging” all of my posts!)