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@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.