ecto tags with spaces in them = headache?

  • I assume it’s the latest version of WP – my blog is hosted at wordpress.

    Tags with spaces in them end up separated as multiple tags on both ends.

    It doesn’t matter if i create the tag on the WP site, or in ecto.

    So, for example, I tag a post with the following tag: “This is fun”

    I can compose and tag a post on the WP site or in ecto, and at the first sync, ecto syncs it up as the complete tag: “This is fun”. If i then edit the post and push it to WP from ecto, in addition to the original tag, it also becomes tagged with “This”, “is” and “fun”, which then become tags on the WP site, which get pulled back down into ecto. Now i have a post in ecto (and on the WP site tagged as: “This is fun”, as well as the individual words “This”, “is”, and “fun”. These additional tags also show up in ecto’s tag list. What a mess.

    Hyphenating the tag: “This-is-fun” would probably fix it, but that just looks bad. I have a feeling ecto is treating the tag ‘name’ as its ‘slug’ and when it sees spaces assumes that’s a delimiter and sees each word as a seperate tag.

    this phenomenon does not appear to happen with categories, only post tags.

    Anyone seen this or have a fix?

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  • I am also facing the same problem with tags on my website https://vsagar.com.
    When I use a tag in my post with spaces like “proximity effect”, it is converted in to “proximity-effect”.
    And so when I search something with the tag proximity effect, 404 error is produced, since the tag is converted into “proximity-effect”…
    What should I do? You can check it for the same here…

    https://vsagar.com/students/tag/proximity-effect/

    Please help…

    Am using the latest version of WP

    @kevrohr

    I assume it’s the latest version of WP – my blog is hosted at wordpress.

    If by that you mean that your site is at wordpress.com, then you are in the wrong forum and need to go to https://en.forums.wordpress.com/

    @v Sagar I just looked at your site and I see in the drop down a list of tags. I picked one, clead code and search for both clead code and clead-code and found nothing. The search only searches the content of your articles, not the tags. The fact that the tags display properly in the dropdowns, tells me that there are no issues with the tags.

    Additionally, please do not hijack someone else’s post. Please start your own thread.

    Thread Starter kevrohr

    (@kevrohr)

    @v Sagar:
    Your problem is different than mine was. Mine was a problem with the blogging application “Ecto” mistreating tags containing spaces. It was interpreting multiple-word tags as multiple individual tags, one for each word. I speculated that using a hyphen would be a workaround to the problem. On Ecto’s support forum, I isolated this as a predictable and repeatable bug in the communication between the Ecto software and the WP software. I have since moved to different software, which does not treat tags this way.

    @christine:
    I have no problem with someone chiming in on my thread; it is, after all, 8 months old, and perhaps bumping it would allow a further discussion to open up. And although I was probably not clear in my intentions for posting this here, (I was attempting to call to attention a deficiency in the WP APIs) I understood this was a forum for WP troubleshooting. I fail to understand the difference between the support forums at www.ads-software.com and wordpress.com, which possibly speaks volumes as to what I perceive of the WP framework itself – that it’s unnecessarily complex.

    HOWEVER, since I believe that this is a WP developer forum, (perhaps I’m wrong, and if so, my apologies) it’s appropriate to point out that Ecto was not the only software which struggled with categories and tags; every desktop blogging software I tried exhibited some sort of weird or glitchy behavior when interfacing with WP’s category and tagging system.

    Which indicates to me that perhaps it’s time for WP devs to take a look at further developing the APIs which deal with categories and tagging.

    Thank you very much, Christine Moderator, for your elaborate answer.
    I, too, tested as said by you and found no problem. To my surprise, how this happened, I don’t know. But as per my previous comment, I had thoroughly tested the persisting problem first and then posted the comment here.
    My apologies for hijacking someone else’s post.
    Will you please be kind enough to tell me as to how can I start my own thread, here on this forum?
    And also I hope that I am on the correct forum.
    Thank you very much again…

    @kevrohr you still haven’t clarified what you mean by hosting. If your site is a wordpress.com, then this is NOT the right forum.
    Here’s an explanation on the difference.

    @vsagar, go to any forum category (here for example – https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting) and click add new.

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