[wp-hackers] pulling the tags

[Haluk Karamete]

I am simply exploring the idea of getting more mileage out of using the
tags ( which is non-hierarchial in nature ).

When I display my tag list for that custom taxonomy for my users, instead
of displaying the huge list in a mixed form, I am trying to achieve the
ability to groupe them.
And for that, I'm thinking of using the simple prefix "-".

With that in mind, I should be able to display the same tag list as follows;


 Baseball
 Basketball
 Boxing
 Soccer
-----------------------------------
 Michael Jordan
 Babe Ruth
 Muhammad Ali
 Jim Brown
 Jesse Owens
 Joe Louis
 Sonny Liston
 Ronaldinho

Isn't it a useful UI for my users and pretty much effortless to achieve?

But again, back to the original question;

What happens to the urls ( and slugs ) for those tags that are
prefixed with a "-"?

And what happens to the tag searches? Will my users be able to find
Soccer players by simply typing "soccer" into the search tags box that I
provide for them or is it that they are going to have to type in "-soccer"
instead?



On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Charles Frees-Melvin <
charles.freesmelvin at me.com> wrote:

> Basically you are just looking to create a hierarchical taxonomy with an
> interface that is non-heirarchical. Or is it more a tax of a tax.
>
> --
> Charles E. Frees-Melvin
> Http://cefm.ca
>
> Sent from my iPhone 4S on Bell
>
> On 2012-04-07, at 14:31, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Working with a tag system ( a non-hierarchical taxonomy that is ), I plan
> > on tagging items like this
> >
> > Basketball
> > Michael Jordan
> > Soccer
> > Babe Ruth
> > Muhammad Ali
> > Jim Brown
> > Jesse Owens
> > Joe Louis
> > Boxing
> > Sonny Liston
> > Ronaldinho
> > Baseball
> >
> >
> > The point here I'm trying to draw attention to is that some terms in this
> > list sound like "groups or categories", and some sound like individuals,
> > persons. Some terms you can find in word dictionaries ( soccer,
> basketball
> > etc ) , and some you cannot ( jordan, owens and so on).
> >
> > Sure, I can take the items that "sound like" groups /or categories from
> > this tag group and implement them as another custom taxonomy or
> categories
> > for that matter. But that's not the point.
> > In many times in real life, we find that tag clouds contains many mixed
> > items - exactly like the list above, that is some items sound like
> > groups/or cats and some don't. and many site serve their visitors like
> that
> > and it is certainly not the end of the world. The question is can we do
> > better with a little trick.
> >
> > Is the following possible?
> >
> > Still use the same single taxonomy, but have your content developers tag
> > the items the following way instead;
> >
> > -Basketball
> > Michael Jordan
> > -Soccer
> > Babe Ruth
> > Muhammad Ali
> > Jim Brown
> > Jesse Owens
> > Joe Louis
> > -Boxing
> > Sonny Liston
> > Ronaldinho
> > -Baseball
> >
> > Notice that the cat sounding ones are prefixed with a - . Easy enough.
> > Yeah?
> >
> > The convenience here is that when tagging the item, my guys still type in
> > the same box ( that is one place to go for tagging cause there is only
> one
> > taxonomy involved )  and they just press the "-" key and boom, the tag
> > interface displays them with a ajax'ed summary of all the cat sounding
> > names, and they just pick one, or simply create a new one like such as
> > "-tennis".
> >
> > While they are at it, they can go ahead and type the
> > individual athlete names too... it's like two bird with one stone.
> >
> > The question is how far does this creative or ( not so creative idea )
> > live?
> >
> > My initial questions are...
> >
> > What happens to the urls ( and slugs ) for those tags that are prefixed
> > with a "-"?
> >
> > And what happens to the tag searches? Will my users be able to find
> Soccer
> > players by simply typing "soccer" into the search tags box that I provide
> > for them or is it that they are going to have to type in "-soccer"
> instead?
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