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DW for tumblrites part 5.5: Actual tags tho
[DW for tumblrites masterpost]
A lot of people have talked about this elsewhere, but here's the low-down on DW tags:
1) There is a tag limit. (1000 for free, 1500 for paid, 2000 for premium)
This means ... don't tag-spam?? As someone who used to write entire secondary blogs in my tags, I'm super sad about this. But here's my post about alternatives to tag-yelling.
2) Tag Management is Amazing
If you go to Organize -> Manage Tags, here are some things that you can do:
- See stats for each of your tags -- how many times used, how many private or public entries, etc. (btw if a tag only exists on private entries, it doesn't show up in your public tag cloud)
- Bulk rename tags (automatically renames it on all the posts)
- Merge tags
3) Tag Display Options: List, Cloud, Multi-level
Your tags are displayed on your Tags Page (https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/), and as an optional box in your sidebar on your blog. You can tweak the way that tags are displayed under Organize -> Customize Style
Under the "Presentation" Tab, you can customize how your tags page is shown:
Under the "Modules" Tab, you can customize how your tags show up on your blog:
(The default here was 50 tags shown, I dialed it down to 15)
List and Cloud are pretty self-explanatory. The Multi-level looks like this:
The way you make this happen is to put a colon (:) between the different levels. For example, if I post a comic, I might tag it as "mine" and also "mine:comic", so that it shows up as both. You can go multiple levels!
4) Tag Searching
So... you can search for multiple tags. I haven't been able to find an interface for it, but the URL edits are pretty straightforward -- add a comma between the tags, and add a ?mode=and if you want intersection.
https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/keep shows the posts I've tagged "keep"
https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/reblog,keep shows the posts that I've tagged "reblog" OR "keep"
https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/reblog,keep?mode=and shows the posts that I've tagged "reblog" AND "keep"
5) Tag Filtering
Whitelisting and blacklisting tags by person is available for paid accounts! I blab about it here: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/9164.html#cutid1
(And apparently there's a 10% discount on paid accounts every December)
A lot of people have talked about this elsewhere, but here's the low-down on DW tags:
1) There is a tag limit. (1000 for free, 1500 for paid, 2000 for premium)
This means ... don't tag-spam?? As someone who used to write entire secondary blogs in my tags, I'm super sad about this. But here's my post about alternatives to tag-yelling.
2) Tag Management is Amazing
If you go to Organize -> Manage Tags, here are some things that you can do:
- See stats for each of your tags -- how many times used, how many private or public entries, etc. (btw if a tag only exists on private entries, it doesn't show up in your public tag cloud)
- Bulk rename tags (automatically renames it on all the posts)
- Merge tags
3) Tag Display Options: List, Cloud, Multi-level
Your tags are displayed on your Tags Page (https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/), and as an optional box in your sidebar on your blog. You can tweak the way that tags are displayed under Organize -> Customize Style
Under the "Presentation" Tab, you can customize how your tags page is shown:
Under the "Modules" Tab, you can customize how your tags show up on your blog:
(The default here was 50 tags shown, I dialed it down to 15)
List and Cloud are pretty self-explanatory. The Multi-level looks like this:
The way you make this happen is to put a colon (:) between the different levels. For example, if I post a comic, I might tag it as "mine" and also "mine:comic", so that it shows up as both. You can go multiple levels!
4) Tag Searching
So... you can search for multiple tags. I haven't been able to find an interface for it, but the URL edits are pretty straightforward -- add a comma between the tags, and add a ?mode=and if you want intersection.
https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/keep shows the posts I've tagged "keep"
https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/reblog,keep shows the posts that I've tagged "reblog" OR "keep"
https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/reblog,keep?mode=and shows the posts that I've tagged "reblog" AND "keep"
5) Tag Filtering
Whitelisting and blacklisting tags by person is available for paid accounts! I blab about it here: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/9164.html#cutid1
(And apparently there's a 10% discount on paid accounts every December)