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The Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin for WordPress, designed by the rockin' Christine Davis. The source page for updated information on this plugin is found at Ultimate Tag Warrior.
The Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) is designed for WordPress sites to increase the possibilities and functions for tagging posts and expanding site navigation through the creation of lists of tags. It allows storing a set of keywords (current slang calls these "tags") against posts that behave like categories - the tags can be displayed on a post as links, and when clicked, the visitor is taken to an archive page for that tag. There are also RSS/atom feeds available for each tag. Unlike categories, for example, you can also view archive pages and feeds for sets of tags such as the posts which are tagged with both "photograph" and "food".
Beyond the category-like behaviour, Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin provides ways of getting an overview of your tags through tag clouds and graphic representation such as a long tail graph and/or weighted bar arrangement. UTW can also be coaxed into linking to other tag-savvy websites such as del.icio.us, Flickr and Technorati.
To add tags to posts, a menu is created listing all the tags in use on the site right in the Write Post panel. Click a tag in the list and it will be instantly added to your tag list. One of the more splendid things that it can do, is use the Yahoo! content analysis bits and pieces tagyu.com to look at the text of the current post, and make suggestions for the tags.
The Ultimate Tag Warrior is not for the timid. While it can be used by anyone to add tags to your posts and site, it has a wide variety of features that allow for a wide range of customization. I'll do my best to showcase the most common usages here, but for more graphic detail, check out the Ultimate Tag Warrior main page on my site.
Currently, this plugin works with Wordpress 2.0 (do sing out if you're using 1.5'ish, and I'll see what I can do for you)
wp-content/plugins/UltimateTagWarrior.Ultimate Tag Warrior offers a wide range of customization options.
If you need access to this file for reference or help, or the link to the main Ultimate Tag Warrior page, I've provided two links under Help at the top of the screen to guide you. I've also added convenient links to move between the Configuration and Manage Tags pages.
/tags/tagname instead of index.php?tag=tagname. Usage of this requires enabling Permalinks and making sure your .htaccess file is writable..htaccess file to reflect the change./tags/tag, URLs are /tags/tag/.#FFFFFF or #8F5B2L). Font sizes can be set for the most and least popular tags. Use only positive values for these. At the bottom of the list you can choose the font size unit as percentage, px (pixel, pt (point), or em. Both values use the same units.If you need access to this file for reference or help, or the link to the main Ultimate Tag Warrior page, I've provided two links under Help at the top of the screen to guide you. I've also added convenient links to move between the Configuration and Manage Tags pages.
The Edit Tags section allows renaming, replacing and deleting tags. If you add more than one tag, then each of the tags will be associated with each of the posts that were tagged with the original tag. For example, if you rename the bananas category to "fruit, yellow", then any post that was tagged with banana will become tagged with both fruit and yellow instead.
If you Rename to a tag that is already in use, then the two tags will merge together.
Deleting deletes a tag. You cannot undo this. There is a pesky dialog box that pops up to confirm deletions, so you better be sure about your choice.
The Assign Synonyms section allows associating synonyms with tags. It's a way of having multiple words map on to a single tag. For example, if you had a photography tag; you might add photo and photograph as synonyms. Presently, the only place where synonyms are used is in the urls of tag pages - with the photo and photograph synonyms in place, if I go to the /tags/photo page, then the posts tagged with photography will display.
Use this at your own risk. Backup your database first, including the tag and post2tag tables in your backup.
While Tidy Tags seems to work okay, it does have the potential to mangle your tags. Use this function if you have a lot of orphaned tags or duplicate tags. Tidy Tags will go through the tags table and clean out orphaned or duplicate tags and sort everything out.
Use this at your own risk. Backup your database first, including the tag and post2tag tables in your backup.
Once this is done, it cannot easily be undone. Clicking this button will add your site's Categories for all of your posts as tags and include them in the post tags, tag lists, and tag cloud.
If you are currently using another plugin or custom fields for keywords or tags, you can import these into Ultimate Tag Warrior. In order to work, the keywords or tags must use the Custom Fields as seen on the Advanced Editing view of the Write Post panel.
Type in the custom field name into the custom field to import from. In the box for the delimiter, enter the character(s) used to separate each tag in the option field value area. This is usually spaces, commas, semi-colons, or pipe ( | ).
This is the vanilla way of adding tags to a post. When you're on the Write Post (or Edit Post) screen, there is a text box labelled "Tags". If you type the tags you would like to associate with the post in the box, they will be saved when the post gets saved.
Depending on the editing options you've selected, there might be a quick-entry-thingamer. If you have the dropdown option selected, there will be a dropdown list with all of your tags. If you select a tag from the list, it will be added to the tag box. If you have the tag list option chosen, a list of links for each of your tags will display; and clicking on a tag link will add it to the tags box. Again, when you save the post, your tags will be saved also.
There is a Get Keyword Suggestions button. If you click it, it will send a request to tagyu.com for keyword suggestions. Clicking on any tags it returns will add those tags to the current post.
Embedded tags are tags which form a part of the content. They enable you to place tags in the middle of your content, rather than just at the end; and they allow you to add tags without being tied to the write post screen in wordpress.
For a single tag which is to be converted into an embedded tag link, the following syntax is used:
In addition to sprinkling singular tags through your posts, you can add a block of tags also.
The embedded tags functionality will only add tags to a post, not overwrite them.
And if you don't like the start and end markers, or the format for the single links, the values used can all be found at the top of the ultimate-tag-warrior-actions.php file if you want to make changes. Changing the start and end markers can make the sky fall on your head if you aren't careful; and if you want to change the way the single links look you'll need to provide a custom format.