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alexandraerinIn case anybody's curious about the errors at Tales of MU today, it's because I was extending the post taxonomy. I'm sure that explains everything to everyone. :P
No, see, when Wordpress added tagging to posts, they put architecture in to make it extensible, so that instead of having posts with just categories and tags, you could have different ways that they're categorized or different sets of tags. I've been using the built-in/default tag set as characters all along, which limited me from tagging posts in other ways without diluting that. But now I can add more sets of tags and plug them into the layout as I want.
The thing is that the functionality is there, but there's no user interface for adding a group of tags. It has to be declared in the code for the site. That's what I was doing when I broke it. It's fixed now, and I have a total of four sets of tags: characters, setting, topics, and trigger warnings.
These are all defined in the back end, but they won't all show up in the front end immediately, and of course there are over 500 chapters/stories on the site that don't have any of these tags applied. But getting them declared is a necessary first step. I might see what I can do about crowdsourcing some of the actual tagging, by and by.
(It also occurs to me now that I could possibly use some combination of tags and/or custom fields to help with chronology.)
No, see, when Wordpress added tagging to posts, they put architecture in to make it extensible, so that instead of having posts with just categories and tags, you could have different ways that they're categorized or different sets of tags. I've been using the built-in/default tag set as characters all along, which limited me from tagging posts in other ways without diluting that. But now I can add more sets of tags and plug them into the layout as I want.
The thing is that the functionality is there, but there's no user interface for adding a group of tags. It has to be declared in the code for the site. That's what I was doing when I broke it. It's fixed now, and I have a total of four sets of tags: characters, setting, topics, and trigger warnings.
These are all defined in the back end, but they won't all show up in the front end immediately, and of course there are over 500 chapters/stories on the site that don't have any of these tags applied. But getting them declared is a necessary first step. I might see what I can do about crowdsourcing some of the actual tagging, by and by.
(It also occurs to me now that I could possibly use some combination of tags and/or custom fields to help with chronology.)
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