Getting Tags to show up using Blog Automater

[RedCherry]

I'm really tired, so hoping this makes sense, lol. I've been remote tagging using Blog Automater, and I notice it puts the nice little list of tags below my post.

But I use Simple Tags, changed the Embedded Tags format to read [tag] [/tag] to match BA, and when I look at the posts, I see all the little [tag]pussy[/tag] inside the post, but when you read my post, the word is left out, and not tagged. Wtf? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? If I view the source, it looks like it is converting the text into something weird.
http://www.theredcherry.com/reality-porn-blog/ all of the tags listed at the bottom were all added by BA, but they are missing from the post.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

I'm really tired, so hoping this makes sense, lol. I've been remote tagging using Blog Automater, and I notice it puts the nice little list of tags below my post.

But I use Simple Tags, changed the Embedded Tags format to read [tag] [/tag] to match BA, and when I look at the posts, I see all the little [tag]pussy[/tag] inside the post, but when you read my post, the word is left out, and not tagged. Wtf? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? If I view the source, it looks like it is converting the text into something weird.
http://www.theredcherry.com/reality-porn-blog/ all of the tags listed at the bottom were all added by BA, but they are missing from the post.

Unfortunately, I don't think your doing anything wrong. That, for some unfuckinggodlyreason, seems to be the way simple tags handles embedding tags.

It's late and I'm drunk so be patient and I'll try to remember what I did to work around the issue in the morning.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

http://www.theredcherry.com/reality-porn-blog/

I'm looking forward to the next release of Blogs Automater since one of the improvements should be better tag handling. For now trying to tag via BA isn't much fun at all. I'm looking forward to seeing what Walrus may have discovered in the way of workarounds.

Also wanted to mention that the blog looks a little strange in Firefox and Safari on the Mac platform. Some of the items at the top seem to be floating up higher than maybe you wanted them? See screenshot attached.

[walrus]

It is a simple tags issue although it would be nice if BA integrated better with WP's tagging system.

Under settings/simple tags/embedded tags there is this little warning

Enabling this will allow Wordpress to look for embedded tags when saving and displaying posts. Such set of tags is marked [tags]like this, and this[/tags], and is added to the post when the post is saved, but does not display on the post.

Why simple tags decided to do it this way I have no idea as I can not think of a single reason that you would want that feature.

I left embedded tags enabled. I added a footer in BA for some generic tags for each campaign. Like if I'm using an amateur feed I want the tag amateur. So the footer goes something like

[tag]keyword1, keyword2[/tag]

Then under manage/autotags/keyword list I added a fairly large collection of keywords.

It's not perfect but it does a pretty good job overall

I hope one of the improvements that happens in BA is that it automatically reads category/tag information in the feed and lets you decide whether to use it or not.

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by Simon

Also wanted to mention that the blog looks a little strange in Firefox and Safari on the Mac platform. Some of the items at the top seem to be floating up higher than maybe you wanted them? See screenshot attached.

Does it look better now? I changed the header height to over the size of the graphic, and it looks ok in firefox to me, but I have no way to check on a Mac. What I get for not cross checking in firefox.

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by walrus

It is a simple tags issue although it would be nice if BA integrated better with WP's tagging system.

Under settings/simple tags/embedded tags there is this little warningWhy simple tags decided to do it this way I have no idea as I can not think of a single reason that you would want that feature.

I left embedded tags enabled. I added a footer in BA for some generic tags for each campaign. Like if I'm using an amateur feed I want the tag amateur. So the footer goes something likeThen under manage/autotags/keyword list I added a fairly large collection of keywords.

It's not perfect but it does a pretty good job overall

I hope one of the improvements that happens in BA is that it automatically reads category/tag information in the feed and lets you decide whether to use it or not.

Well that is Just WRONG! who would want to embed tags that don't show up?

Ok, thanks for the work around, I'll put them in a footer like you suggest and do that. Better than having to delete the things every time so the words show up.

You were drunk and I was tired, but we both seemed to make sense, lol.

[Simon]

Hiya

Looks good on my browsers now.

(don't tell everyone but you can check how your site looks in other browsers and on other computing platforms by using browsershots dot org)

[RedCherry]

I FIXED IT Ok here is what cha do.

Open up simple-tags/2.5/simple-tags.client.php

Go to approx line 185. There will be:

// Remove embedded tags in posts display
		if ( $this->options['use_embed_tags'] == 1 ) {
			add_filter('the_content', array(&$this, 'filterEmbedTags'), 0);
		}

I commented out the lines like this:

// Remove embedded tags in posts display
		//if ( $this->options['use_embed_tags'] == 1 ) {
		//	add_filter('the_content', array(&$this, 'filterEmbedTags'), 0);
	//	}

And now my tags show up. The only down side is, they are not coded with the SEO links domain.com/tag/ but are coded domain.com/index.php?tag=keyword. But at least they are there.

Thanks Walrus for pointing out he said they wouldn't show up..I knew he had to have in his code somewhere a don't show these tags, lol.

Oh, this has a 2.5 version of the that file, and a 2.3 version, so I'm guessing if you have 2.3 wp, edit that file instead.

[RedCherry]

ok, figured out the index.php? you need to have UTW installed too, and click on the url rewrite section so it rewrites the embedded tags.