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• At 14 February '05 - 18:51 timsamoff wrote:

  

  The Technorati cosmos is AWEsome, Marco! Too cool… One question… Can the tags be used as a replacement for the current Category system in Pivot? Or can the tags generated from the Categories?
  
  I understand that there is a pice of code that must be entered in the Entries… Will this be the only way to use tags?

  
  

• At 14 February '05 - 19:00 Marco wrote:

  You have to add a simple tag around words you want to ‘tag’. This gives the blogger WAY more freedom than just having the categories to be tags. You can ‘tag’ any relevant word in your posting for a rich tag cosmos. Most blog only have say 10 categories max. That’s not much of a tag cosmos now is it?

  
  

• At 14 February '05 - 22:37 timsamoff wrote:

  

  That does make future posts easy to tag, but what about older posts? I’d hate to have to go back through my 600+ posts and add this to all of them just to enter them into the cosmos.
  
  There might have to be two “tag” Extensions for this reason — one to add pertinent Entry words to the cosmos and one to add Categories to the cosmos. Just a thought.
  
  Another reason to utilize Categories is that I’d love it if my tags would appear as the Categories currently do (in a specified location in my template).

  
  

• At 14 February '05 - 22:53 timsamoff wrote:

  

  Hey, I just had an idea! What if I added the tt tag to all of my Category names in the Category Admin of Pivot? Do you think this would work to add the code to all of the Cateogry instances?

  
  

• At 14 February '05 - 23:16 Marco wrote:

  @tim> I don’t know but something in the line of this should work I guess.

  
  

• At 15 February '05 - 00:18 Marco wrote:

  Tim, I thought about it for a while but I concluded that categories just aren’t the same as tags. You’d end up with 10 (or so) HUGE tags with tons of posts and an enormous list of links on the tag universe page, and not much else in your tag cosmos. While I realize tagging old posts is quite a job, this IS the way to go to get a rich tag cosmos. You just have to tag the words that are really relevant to the posting in order to get a really good effect with this extension.

  
  

• At 15 February '05 - 13:15 timsamoff wrote:

  

  Still… I think it’d be nice to be able to add Categories if we chose to… I don’t think I’ll ever go back through all of my old posts in order to get the tags to work with them (which is fine, I guess, as tags are a new concept anyway). Also, I use many more than 10 Categories, so the weak cosmos wouldn’t be a problem for me.

  
  

• At 15 February '05 - 15:13 Marco wrote:

  Tim, I’ve added a replacement for category in the 2.2 version. Just replace category with tcategory in entrypage_template.html and your categories should become tags.

  
  

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