New Features on Website
July 1, 2006
I have a couple of new features to the website and I think I would give a quick run down of what they were:
- I have added a new Pages sidebar item with links to some pages of interest outside the wordpress date hierarchy.
- I recently started using tags on my posts – you may remember an earlier post about that. I have now added a Tags Map page. This page gives you a cosmos/heat map type of display of all my tags. You can than view related posts. The Tags Map is accessible via the previously mentioned new Pages sidebar item.
- A couple of days ago, I posted about getting my Xbox 360 its own blog via the guys over at 360Voice. Since then, I have found a nice little wordpress plugin by Saccia over at Pure Digital Thought. I have taken that plugin, extended it and modified for my own use on Mr Papa’s World. You can now see the result on the blog page of my Xbox 360. You can access that blog via the previously mentioned new Pages sidebar item. Oh, the 360Voice guys were also nice enough to mention Mr Papa’s World the other day on their site after I mentioned them on mine. Pretty cool stuff…
- Lastly, I have now added a link to a page that lists all of the wordpress plugins that I use on Mr Papa’s World. That link too can be found in the previously mentioned new Pages sidebar item. Most of these plugins are the work of others, but you will see a few of mine and some I have modded.
I hope you enjoy these new features on Mr Papa’s World.
Today is also the day that everyone arrives for the family reunion. We go to pick them up at the airport in a few hours. It looks like we never got any flight information from them (or lost it if we did) so it should be interesting. Luckily, Tucson International Airport is not too big and we can stake out at a couple of key chokepoints and should be able to spot them.
Finally Adding Tags
June 26, 2006
I have finally given and am gonna start tagging my blog posts. It’s not so much that I have resisted doing the tagging thing, its just that I didnt really understand the benefit of doing it versus categories. I had specifically chosen a small number of categories for filing my posts under. I also didnt want to have a huge lists of items on the right hand sidebar. Unfortunately, the small number of categories has made searching the site not as efficient. One gets too many posts for a category. As I understand it, tags is just another word for keyword.
I am still not sure I fully understand the benefit of tags, maybe someone can better explain it to me. I see the site benefiting as a better organization of searchable data/posts. In addition, the tags are an effective way to communicate content to other sites that ping my site when I post. It should allow folks to also dig deeper into the content on this site.
So, you should now see a “Read More” row under the post title with a list of tags for the post. If you click on one of the tags, you will be shown other posts that were tagged similarily. At least for now, I plan to keep the categories too.
Now the question is what to do about all the old posts? Do I go back and add tags to them? That could be tiresome and tedious. I guess the worst that would happen is that you cant get tag references to them and the “Read More” will say none. Also, I have to be careful when tagging or I will end up with a bunch of posts with the same categories and tags (like this one).
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