Forty Plus Two

WordPress.com uses categories as tags plus uses the tags to show other blogs within WordPress.com that uses the same ones. I would like to separate categories and tags, having about a dozen categories but being more genrous with tags. And I would like my tags to be local, to work within my own blog.

Lorelle on WordPress has lots of useful posts and I found A Tagging Bookmarklet for WordPress and Wordpress.com Users. That post took me to Technorati Tags Button where I found a solution that works nicely, see bottom of this post.

As Lorelle writes in her comment, there are two bookmarklets, one based on Greasemonkey and the other is a the straight bookmarklet version. I decided to use the Greasemonkey version.

It took me a while to get it all in order but this is what I did.

1. I run Firefox so I had to install Greasemonkey.

2. I went to Technorati Tags Button and clicked on “Install WordPress.com Site Search Tags Button userscript” since I only want local tags.

3. I had problems to get the tagging to work in WordPress but found the solution in one of the last comments on the post above. You have to make changes to the code in the Greasemonkey script which turned out to be quite easy to do. Click on Greasemonkey in the Tools menu, then click ‘Manage User Scripts’ then find the Site Search script and add these lines:

http://*.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php*

http://*.wordpress.com/wp-admin/page.php*

You know you got the script to work when you find a new tab labelled “Search tags” in the Code view for posts and pages.

All I have to do now is tag my previous blog posts which will be done over time for natural reasons.