WP Tag Manager 0.1

One of the things that puzzled me about WordPress 2.3 is that it didn’t come with a tag manager. Then I realized they probably wanted to see what plugin developers would come up with first. Well, after looking around at some tag manager plugins, I decided to write my own. My goal is to create a tag manager that is feature rich and easy to use that also seamlessly integrates into the WordPress admin so that it looks like it is a part of the admin itself rather than an add-on.

In this initial 0.1 release you can:

  • Edit tags
  • Delete tags
  • Merge tags

Not as feature rich as I want, but the basics are there. When I get more time, I plan on adding tag splitting, list untagged posts, and search for similar tags. Suggestions for other features are welcome. You might also check out my other plugin, Category Posts Widget.

This plugin requires WordPress 2.3 or above.

Notice: WP Tag Manager 0.1.1 is available.

You can download the latest version of WP Tag Manager at the official WordPress plugin repository.

Installation

  1. Download the plugin using the link above.
  2. Upload tag-manager.php to the plugins folder of your blog.
  3. Goto the Plugins section of the WordPress admin and activate the plugin.
  4. Goto the Tag tab of the Manage section and start managing your tags.

Screenshots

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Donate

This plugin was created by me and is made available free of charge. However, if you would like to show your appreciation, you can donate via PayPal by clicking the donate button in the sidebar. All funds go towards getting me into college so I can get an education. :)

Posted on October 27, 2007 / 12:27pm in Code

12 comments so far—help keep the conversation going.

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    Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/29 said on October 28, 2007:

    [...] WP Tag Manager aims to provide tag management that seamlessly integrates into your WordPress admin. [...]

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    Otro administrador de etiquetas para Wordpress 2.3 - Carrero Bitácora de los Hermanos Carrero, David Carrero Fernández-Baillo y Jaime Carrero Fernández-Baillo. said on October 29, 2007:

    [...] información y Descarga: WP Tag Manager Etiquetas: etiquetas, plugins, [...]

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    Cameron said on October 29, 2007:

    Thanks for this plugin James, I had mistakenly made a wrong tag for my sites blog and couldn’t for the life of me work out how to delete/edit it, this plugin makes it all so simple. I’m very grateful there are clever people like you out there sharing these things so that less clever people like me can fix our mistakes!
    :-)>

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    Gamma said on October 29, 2007:

    Thanks for creating this. I couldn’t understand why something like it wasn’t put into the 2.3 release. Seems to be working well for me.

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    Evert Jan said on October 29, 2007:

    Hi,

    This is something that really is missing in version 2.3.x of Wordpress. I think your plugin has great potential.

    How about making the tags sortable on tagname? I think this makes managing tags easier when there are a lot of tags.

    Regards,
    EJ

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    Mijn del.icio.us bookmarks van 28 oktober tot 29 oktober » Onbezet.nl said on October 29, 2007:

    [...] WP Tag Manager 0.1 » James Lao - [...]

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    Esbjorn Larsen said on November 1, 2007:

    The plugin doesn’t work. When I click “edit” on a tag I get a “The webpage cannot be found” error.

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    Neil said on November 2, 2007:

    Doesn’t work for me. When I try to Edit or Delete, I get a 404 error.

    I think the problem is that $jtm_root is set to get_bloginfo(’url’) rather than Get_bloginfo(’wpurl’).

    ‘url’ works fine, provided that the Blog address is in the same directory as the WP installation. Mine isn’t. My Blog address is the webroot, but WP is in a subdirectory.

    Changing ‘url’ to ‘wpurl’ on lines 57 & 106 fixed this problem for me.

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    Jeroen said on November 27, 2007:

    Another great plug-in! Thanks man! Like you said… it’s weird that WP hasn’t implemented something like this…

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    Dunc said on January 4, 2008:

    I get the tag manager menu, but it’s giving me ‘Invalid argument supplied in /wp-content/plugins/tagmanager/tag-manager.php for foreach() on line 78.’?

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    Eric Setiawan’s Journal » Blog Archive » WP Tag Manager plugin said on January 25, 2008:

    [...] James Lao writes about his WP Tag Manager: “One of the things that puzzled me about WordPress 2.3 is that it didn’t come with a tag manager. Then I realized they probably wanted to see what plugin developers would come up with first. Well, after looking around at some tag manager plugins, I decided to write my own.” When I installed WordPress 2.3 with the integrated tag I was looking for how to manage the tags. And I found none. So I search in Google and I found this plugin. It works for now but I hope it can be improved later. + 26 January 2008 • Tags: james lao, plugin, tag, WordPress, wp tag manager [...]

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    yunus yeşilmen said on February 20, 2008:

    very nice, I searching a plugins like this, founded here. My web blog is wp. Some post haven’t any tags, bu are added tags only number. this plugin very nice,

    Very thanks

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