Devtard

Well, but I don’t really understand what’s the problem. Why don’t you just specify all tags that you want to be assigned and then use the tool for tagging all posts?

That’s the purpose of this plugin – it doesn’t use any shitty external API to add tags, everything is under user’s control.

There are plugins that use external (e.g. Yahoo) API for this purpose (but they suck, that’s why I created this plugin).

Hello, this plugin does not generate tags itself, it only assigns tags defined by the user. So you have to add some tags first – in your case, it would be “eclipse”. You can do that on the plugin settings page or when editing a post.

Okay, it seems to work now. Now we need just the option for automatic restoring. ??

I am afraid that it won’t work for me, it works with widgets only. Is there something similar that I can use?

Well, I’ll wait for the next upgrade and then I’ll let you know if this bug appears again.

Hey, I just updated the plugin but even though I saved the template before upgrading and hit the restore button after that, my template was reverted to default settings so I had to upload it from a backup. Could you please tell me what else to do in case that I missed something?

Thanks.

Hey, sorry that I cannot give you more information, I uninstalled the plugin several days ago and I don’t even remember on which blog it was installed. It’s WP version was 3.5 though.

Oh, I get it know. I am silly, I thought that the template would restore automatically (it would be nice if there was an option for that in settings). Thanks. ??

Hello, for some reason the saving feature doesn’t work for me (neither the template or CSS was saved). Any idea what am I doing wrong?

A lot of my tags, for instant, include first and last names together. I feel like a moron for asking this but, since spaces are considered separators, what character would I put in between the words to create a tag using 2 words?

If you use a space, the algorithm will still treat the tag as any other string. You can put there whatever you like, just make sure that the tag (or a related word) occurs in your posts in order to be added.

Also, please explain the option of: “How should APT recognize words?” What if it is left blank? Should I restore the ones you already had listed in the default settings if I don’t know what I’m doing?

These characters are used to find tags or related words. APT basically looks for something like this:

$any_separator . $word . $any_separator

If you delete all of them then the script will be slightly faster but then only substrings surrounded by spaces will be considered as words. You should check the option “Replace non-alphanumeric characters with spaces” to ensure that every user-defined tag will be added to a post. Or you can just restore original separators.

Hope that helps. ??

New version 1.4 has been released. You can try to re-tag your posts with an improved algorithm without any problems now.

Yes, that works. But isn’t there a way to do it via PHP?

I don’t really like JavaScript, but if there is no other solution I will consider using it.

Well, if the tag has a specific format I guess that it could removed after importing a post by using a regular expression. There might be a WP hook that would trigger the tag-removing function or a cron could be used if posts are not being imported via the WP import tool.

If you are not afraid of PHP and you also want to learn something about plugin creation, I encourage you to visit these pages:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Writing_a_Plugin
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/save_post (or https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Category:WP-Cron_Functions)
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

I don’t want to implement any extra functions that are not directly related to Automatic Post Tagger, sorry. Although this would be a nice feature for my other (still imaginary) plugin which will work with taxonomies in general.

Why don’t you “physically” delete the unwanted tags? You don’t have to remove them manually from each post, you can delete them from this page: /wp-admin/edit-tags.php. These tags won’t appear in any of your posts anymore if you do this.