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Textpattern Tagging

June 14, 2008 |

I am a big Textpattern fan, and to me, it’s more flexible than Wordpress, but for many who have used both Textpattern and Wordpress, Wordpress provides more functions, and one of the functions is tagging. The lack of tagging feature frustrates some blogging and web content writer.

There is an easy way around this:

Use Textpattern keywords: Tagging content is associating any word and phrase that fits the piece, not
picking from a predetermined list of possible categories. Textpattern enables traditional tagging functionality out of the box through the Keywords field on the Write tab. A list of articles with similar keyword values can be output via a standard

<txp:article_custom />

tag.

So there are three steps to make this happen:

1. Go to the tab Presentation->Forms, from the top of the right sidebar, click on the ‘Create new form’ link.

2. In the textarea, type:

<li><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink> (<txp:posted />)</li>

Under ‘Name (required)’ input filed, type taglinks.

Under ‘Type (required)’ dropdown menu, choose article.

Save the form.

3. Now navigate to any articles you have(Content->Articles), at the end the article, you might plug this into your article body:

<txp:article_custom form="taglinks" keywords="Fiona Apple" />

In this case, any articles containing the keyword “Fiona Apple” will appear in the list.

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