{"id":406,"date":"2007-09-25T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/406\/tags-in-wordpress-23"},"modified":"2007-09-25T21:55:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:55:27","slug":"tags-in-wordpress-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/406\/tags-in-wordpress-23","title":{"rendered":"Tags In WordPress 2.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve upgraded to the recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2007\/09\/wordpress-23\/\">WordPress 2.3<\/a>, you may have noticed that the release brings official support for &#8220;native tags.&#8221; Tags are familiar to most people who use various social networking sites such as Flickr or Del.Icio.Us, but in the context of blogging it can be a bit confusing because there is often some semantic overlap between a blog server&#8217;s use of tags and categories.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn short, categories are typically used more conceptually for organization, while tags are used for identification by whatever keywords seem appropriate. For this reason there is usually a limited number of categories on a blog, while there may be an infinite number of tags.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany people have asked me when MarsEdit will support the native tags in WordPress 2.3. For once, I&#8217;ve got good news that doesn&#8217;t require me to release a new version! Thanks to some thoughtful design by the WordPress developers, native tags are already supported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHow do you take advantage of the support? Just show the &#8220;Keywords&#8221; field for your WordPress 2.3 blog in MarsEdit. You do this by selecting it from the View menu in the main menu bar. Now you can enter tags as a comma-separated list of terms. These will be sent along with your post to the WordPress blog, and if it&#8217;s version 2.3 or later, the terms will automatically be incorporated as tags along with the post.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI hope this brings an &#8220;unexpected&#8221; feature to light for those of you running WordPress. There are obviously improvements I&#8217;d like to make in the way MarsEdit handles tags. Obvious things that come to mind are auto-completion and an improved UI for reinforcing the separation between tag terms. But for the short term I think this feature will be very appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve upgraded to the recently released WordPress 2.3, you may have noticed that the release brings official support for &#8220;native tags.&#8221; Tags are familiar to most people who use various social networking sites such as Flickr or Del.Icio.Us, but in the context of blogging it can be a bit confusing because there is often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marsedit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}