Re: tagging for dummies?

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Akkana Peck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pete Goldsmith writes:

>  That's a nice answer to the question "Why use tags?" But my
>  question remains, "How do I add tags to my pybloxsom blog entries?
>  What tag syntax do external search engines look for?"
>
To add tags in pyblosxom you use any plugin that add it, normaly it
instructs that you add metada to it with:

#metadata-name metadata-data

So in every entry in my blog I add in the second line
#tags tag1,tag2,tag3

This is parsed by the plugin and used. Now to use your tags, the
plugin must provide a way, for example the url:
http://example.com/blog/tag1/ will list all the entries marked with tag1.

The list must be delivered as a html unordered list or a tag cloud
from this plugin in a template variable (the plugin must indicade
which), then you just put this variable in the right place on your
template. This could be enough to the idea of "marking" with certain
tag the entries, because with the links of the list of tags on your
blog (provided by the plugin) google or other robots could associate
the entry with the actual story that you created.

Now that you are here, *maybe* you want that certain site
auto-magically sindicates that tags (and posibliy other metadata) from
your pyblosxom's blog. Then what you _may_ need to do are two things:
1) If that site reads from a rss or some kind of xml you create (or
edit) a _template_ that provides with <tags> or something that it
understand so you advertise that certain entry has some tags and make
that site point to that template, just like you provide your rss or
the index of your blog.
2) Or you make a script that runs on top of some clases of pyblosxom
(that eludes web stuff maybe) and get the metadata in your entries and
send on whatever way that certain site requires that you send.

Just like that, Pyblosxom is like a blog or publicizing framework in
Python from there anything goes :-).

Hope it helps.
-- 
Edgar A. Luna

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