Getting Tags to show up using Blog Automater

[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.