On another post I’ve described a nice way to auto-describe your post tags. I decided to turn this feature into a plugin.
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Here is how I’ve made it. There are 3 major parts of the plugin:
- auto-describing tags
- auto-updating tag info
- plugin administration
1. Auto-describing tags
As I posted here, the best way is to use freebase: Alternate way for tagging a post.
2. Auto-updating tag info
To achieve that I registered a function (BWP_auto_describe_tags_the_content) to be called when an entry will be shown (adding a filter function to ‘the_content’). Further more, I am keeping an internal list so a tag won’t be submitted for auto-description more than once (to reduce redundant api calls). Also, I made it so only one tag will be submitted for auto-description / function call. And as a feature, I’ve added a list of blocked tags. Any tag in that list wont be submitted for auto-description (as I submitted API for auto-description and I got the description of a mountain peak).
3. Plugin administration page
I covered this parte here: Auto Add Tags – Part 2 – Saving plugin options
Final considerations
This plugin will only add a suitable description to your tags! It wont do any showing. If tag description isn’t shown on the tag page, you might wanna consider looking up your theme a bit. There are 2 things a theme must have to show tag description on a tag page:
Timeline:
March 23, 2011: I’ve submitted the plugin to WordPress plugin repository and I am waiting for approval.
March 23, 2011: The plugin was accepted to WordPress plugin repository. You can find it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-auto-describe-tags/