Technorati tags, yay or nay?

Lemmy · 2007-08-21, 09:00 PM

So I had another go and I think I've got most of UTW to work, I even got the tag cloud in the sidebar.

I've got a couple questions though, and the last one is gonna make me look like an idiot.

1. What's the difference between tag.php and tags.php? I kind of understood the explanation for tags.php, installed it and it worked right off the bat, but I didn't quite understand tags.php so I just uploaded the one in the /example-bits folder to see what happened. Sure enough I got a page, but it was broken apart (surely just a matter of formatting somewhere). So should I use both or just one, and if just one, which is best?

2. What is the point of UTW? With Simpletags I got listings on Technorati and traffic back. Is the same true with UTW tagging or is it just to make my blog pretty and show that I'm one of the Web 2.0 gang?

walrus · 2007-08-22, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Lemmy

1. What's the difference between tag.php and tags.php? I kind of understood the explanation for tags.php, installed it and it worked right off the bat, but I didn't quite understand tags.php so I just uploaded the one in the /example-bits folder to see what happened. Sure enough I got a page, but it was broken apart (surely just a matter of formatting somewhere). So should I use both or just one, and if just one, which is best?

tag.php and tags.php both do different things and both are completely optional.

tag.php - When someone clicks on one of your tags, this is the template file that is first called to display the posts with that tag. It's there so that you can style the posts (if you want) differently than they way they look when you bring up a single post, an archive or your main blog. Most people don't bother with styling these differently and if you don't upload it, UTW will use the index.php instead.

tags.php - is a template for if you want to have a page listing all of your tags. In other words, its a page template.

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Originally Posted by Lemmy

2. What is the point of UTW? With Simpletags I got listings on Technorati and traffic back. Is the same true with UTW tagging or is it just to make my blog pretty and show that I'm one of the Web 2.0 gang?

Technorati does not require a link back to it for it to recognize tags.

HTML Code:

rel="tag">blonde</a>

Is the part of the link they care about and if, when they spider your site, they find that, they will include it.

Lemmy · 2007-08-22, 02:52 PM

Thanks for that explanation Walrus. It looks like I have enough ducks in a row to get this monster plugin working. But Jesus fucking Christ what a nightmare it is to navigate the jungle of plugins, widgets and addons. It's good to have someone like you around.

2007-08-21, 09:00 PM	#1
Lemmy You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Next door to a kid with a moped. Posts: 1,492	So I had another go and I think I've got most of UTW to work, I even got the tag cloud in the sidebar. I've got a couple questions though, and the last one is gonna make me look like an idiot. 1. What's the difference between tag.php and tags.php? I kind of understood the explanation for tags.php, installed it and it worked right off the bat, but I didn't quite understand tags.php so I just uploaded the one in the /example-bits folder to see what happened. Sure enough I got a page, but it was broken apart (surely just a matter of formatting somewhere). So should I use both or just one, and if just one, which is best? 2. What is the point of UTW? With Simpletags I got listings on Technorati and traffic back. Is the same true with UTW tagging or is it just to make my blog pretty and show that I'm one of the Web 2.0 gang? __________________ BUY MY PORNSITES!

2007-08-22, 02:52 PM	#3
Lemmy You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Next door to a kid with a moped. Posts: 1,492	Thanks for that explanation Walrus. It looks like I have enough ducks in a row to get this monster plugin working. But Jesus fucking Christ what a nightmare it is to navigate the jungle of plugins, widgets and addons. It's good to have someone like you around. __________________ BUY MY PORNSITES!