[bbDev] Tags drop down.. can it be done?

Aditya Naik so1oonnet at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 18:13:47 GMT 2007


i agree. i think we can also incorporate Ajax auto complete in any of the
upcoming release. or even better we can try to create a plugin for it.

On 1/5/07, Michael D Adams <mikea at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:41 AM, spencerp wrote:
>
> > The suggestion for this came up on the wp-forums list a while back,
> > but.. nothing was posted on the "How-To" for it..
> >
> > I was just wondering, what would be the tags "call" for making this
> > possible? Here's an example of what I'm talking about...
> >
> > <li><h2>Browse By</h2>
> > <select name="archivemenu"
> > onChange="document.location.href=this.options
> > [this.selectedIndex].value;">
> > <option value="">Tags</option>
> > <?php tag_heat_map(); ?>
> > </select>
> >
> > What's the actual "call" for the tags, to have them all be listed
> > there? Thanks in advanced.. ;):)
>
> You want a dropdown of all your tags?  I'm not sure that's the best
> way to go about it.  What happens when your site ends up with
> thousands of tags?  The dropdown will be huge, and your site will be
> really slow to load because of the giant DB query and bandwidth issues).
>
> Maybe a "search tags" textbox on the tags page would be better?
>
> Michael
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