Tags Tags Tags. I love Tags and I love Tagging. So the Ultimate Tag Warrior is a perfect one-stop-shop for your tagging needs.
When I was writing my post, Wordpress Plugins: Technorati I noticed that I had the UTA plugins in my plugins directory but I wasn't using the plugin. I had UTW there for to support the SEO Plugin which, by the way is also very handy. I think I did tryit out at one point but at the time the concept of tags and tagging was lost on me. But now that I have discovered a new addiction to tags the UTW is the perfect enabler.
The developer of Ultimate Tag Warrior did a verynice job of providing a feature rich Admin interface as well as fairly detailed help files.
The Admin options are broken up into two sections: Tag Configuration and Tag management.
Tag Configuration
You can access Tag Configuratin via Options->Tags and this is where you will manage all of your UI settings like URL settings to set url rewriting, Primary Content Tags to place tag links in your RSS Feeds and Primary Content Tags to place tag links in your posts.
Tag Management
You can access Tag Management via Manage->Tags and this is where you will manage all of your Tags like Editing a Tag name, Assign Synonyms to a tag and Convert Categories to Tags to name a few functions.
Tag Cloud Widget
One of the cool things I hacked on was a Tag Cloud Widget which displays all of the Tags based on weight and when one is slected it displays all of the post with that selected tag. I diceded to do this as a replacement to the traditional Categories list. If you are not using the WordPress Widgets Plugin you can read my post: How to implement Sidebar Widgets in your current WordPress Theme.
The widget it's self is very easy to create and is nothing but a wrapper around a UTWFunction. Below is the widget code that you can copy/past into a php file that you drop into your widgets directory and then enable it via the widgets admin interface.
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<?php
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function widget_utw_tag_cloud_init() {
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// Check for the required API functions
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return;
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function widget_utw_tag_cloud() {
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?>
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<h1>Tags</h1>
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<span style="text-decoration:none;">
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<?php
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UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("sizedtagcloud");
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}
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?></span>
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<?php
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}
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// Tell Dynamic Sidebar about our new widget and its control
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}
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// Delay plugin execution to ensure Dynamic Sidebar has a chance to load first
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add_action('widgets_init', 'widget_utw_tag_cloud_init');
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?>
At some point I'll add the widget admin options but I haven't gotten to that yet.
Tags Search Page
Another item that took abit of hacking was a the Tags Search Page which displays all of the tags and works just like the Tag Cloud Widget but the difference is that if you select another tag it will display eithe all posts with either tag or only the posts that have both tags.
To set this page up there is a searchtags.php template page that comes with UTW and all you need to do is drop the searchtags.php in your current themes' directory and the create a New Page using the searchtags as the template. Now browse to the new page and you shold see something like this page, please keep in mind that you may need to do a little hacking of the searchtags.php to get it to look just right.
So if you are looking for a really good tag solution for Wordpress then the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin is just what you need.