[wp-hackers] Change Tag Delimiter from a comma to a semicolon

[Nathaniel Taintor]

Well, yeah, there's always a workaround. But sometimes it does make sense
from a user's perspective for the tags to include commas. In my case, I
wasn't storing city, state; I was just storing city information. And for
most people, "Washington, DC" is the name of the city, not just
"Washington". Other cities - like "Seattle" or "Miami" - don't need a state
indicator.

In the same way if you were storing movie titles in a tags field, I would
think you would probably want to use the actual title and not some sanitized
version... that's what the slug is for.

Than


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Belknap <dragonfly at dragonflyeye.net
> wrote:

> Why wouldn't you use "locations" and then cities and states as their own
> tags? That way, you can use the intersection of two tags to determine
> precisely what the user wants.
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Nathaniel Taintor <
> goldenapplesdesign at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know, I had this same issue trying to use "cities" as a custom
> > taxonomy, where entries like "Washington, DC" constantly gave me
> problems.
> > I
> > think its a valid question. I took the lazy way out and renamed all my
> city
> > tags without commas, but I'd like to hear from anyone who took the time
> to
> > think it through and came up with a solution.
> >
> > Than
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Clarke <jer at simianuprising.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > This is pretty wacky man. I suggest you reconsider your decision to
> > include
> > > commas in tag names. Is it absolutely necessary? Would the text content
> > > really not make sense without the comma? If you're tagging book/movie
> > > titles
> > > or something why not just skip commas, are you afraid of the hipster
> > > title-spelling police?
> > >
> > > Have you considered using categories instead?
> > >
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