Tag Lure

Finally got around to adding tags to the site, via a rather roundabout (yet simple) way - they’re generated from the links present on a page (which is the only real way to do it in a , partly because I can’t be bothered to manually tag each post), and are only visible through the Atom and RSS feeds (purists will like to know that due to ancient PhpWiki internals, I could not use the category attribute in the feeds - I will fight that battle another night).

I personally find that they add too much clutter between posts on a standard web page, but since feed aggregators tend to show one article at a time, that may be more acceptable.

Update: João Craveiro pointed out that single-page views of a node might also be suitable to display the tags, but they are already conveniently present in both the links and the SeeAlso footer for each individual node (I’m using rel="tag" on those).

Anyway, in case your aggregator supports CSS, you can style the div containing the tag links through a class called (unimaginatively) technorati_tags. Someday I will get around to add a CSS to the actual feeds, but for now it’s just right-aligned on a per-instance basis.

In the meantime, I’ve been wondering if indexing is working at all - even after pinging them some twelve hours ago, there is still a single match for , for instance (which is both a recent post and a fairly uncommon tag).

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