Tagging Redux

I initially started playing with tags on my blog way back in March to get my posts listed on Technorati. Not that it made much difference to readers since the tags only showed up in my feeds and not on the actual site.

Thanks for Movable Type's new Tags plugin that's all changed. The plugin changes the keywords to tags and saves them as either categories or subcategories. The tags can then be used in a variety of ways. Currently I'm using them to power a tag cloud to group and summarize all the tags I've used.

Plugging the new tags into your feeds so that they get picked up by Technorati is simple. For RSS 1.0 feeds, add the following code below the description:

<MTEntryTags><dc:subject><$MTTagName encode_xml="1"$></dc:subject></MTEntryTags>

For an RSS 2.0 feed, just change dc:subject tags to category tags.

By Jen on June 15, 2005 11:01 AM | | Comments (4)

4 Comments

Christine said:
I am despriatly trying to get the tags working with MT 3.16. I have the plugin in the plugin directory, I have the .tmpl file where it should be, and I put the MTEntryTags container with MTTagName variable between it in the proper syntax. Nothing is displaying. Is it possible the downloaded .pl was bad (its from sixapart). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
June 23, 2005 11:55 AM
Christine said:
This is in addition to the above comment. I am just putting this code in the Main Index and Individual Entry Archive templates. I will try to plug it into the feeds as you did, but I need to get the other working.
June 23, 2005 11:58 AM
Christine said:
I tried to see what the rss code would do and I put in the code below the description is RSS1 I get the following error when I try to syndicate End tag 'MTEntryTags' does not match the start tag 'item'. Error processing resource 'http://carlscorner5.pulver.com/index.rdf'. Line 48, Position 28 ---------------------------^ I would be very grateful for help. Thanks
June 23, 2005 1:24 PM
Sean said:
Awesome, I have been tagging my posts (in the keyword field not with the new plugin, don't see the need for it) but don't have them in the RSS stream yet though, will have to get on that. Don't know if such tag clouds are actualy helpful to readers but it is fun to get a visual of what I am talking about most though.
June 28, 2005 9:30 AM

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