Based on discussions in a prior thread concerning ‘planning my visit to Napa/Sonoma, Santa Barbara/Central Coast/Finger Lakes/etc’ I’ve decided to give Topic Tags a try.
Here’s how they work:
When you post a topic of particular common interest, one that likely has a lot of searches and you find is often repeated, you can add a Topic Tag. You can also go back to threads you have started and edit the first post/topic title to add Topic Tags. Be judicious in when you use it and how you do, so I don’t have to edit them out. ONLY commonly discussed topics, please.
When a Topic Title is created, it shows in the post what the Topic Title is, both in the list of topics/threads and in the thread itself.
When you click the Topic Title within the post, you can find all OTHER threads with that same Topic Title, which is the real reason I put this feature in - so that those looking for Wine Travel can see the Tag, then click it and see many more threads like it - a very efficient search process.
Did you try it with a new topic/thread (not a response post, only original topic title post)? I wonder if this is admin-only, which is fine, just gives me more work lol.
I can see it on that post and also click on it and it takes me to the list of threads. When I create a new topic or go to edit a previous topic I created it doesn’t give me the option though.
Registering an opinion: having the tags displayed in every thread topic is both distracting, and adds additional space in some cases. I like the idea of tags, and having them displayed in the first post once you open a thread is great, but if it’s possible to turn that display off in the top level forum list, that would be my preference. Seems like the purpose of tags is to aid in searches, I don’t really need to see a berserkerday tag in a thread title that already has berserkerday in it (for example). Once this gets used more widely, I think it will look pretty funky.
And a question: would it be possible to have an option in search that just looks for tags? If I want Paris Restaurants, eventually it would be nice to be able to find threads that are tagged that way, as opposed to every thread with the word Paris and restaurant in it.
I disabled the view of the tags within forum list, so it looks ‘normal’ now, but it still shows at the end of the topic first post, still searchable.
As for the search that just looks for tags, you’d have to click the tag itself, which searches for all other topics that have that tag - wholly different search than the keyword search above. Once more tags are added, the feature will be quite helpful. If you have a bunch of restaurants in Paris posts/threads, any that you are the author of you can add those tags to
Is it worth having some tag “guidelines”? Like, can tags have spaces? Should we have a standard set of tags for restaurant, wine travel, hotels, etc? For example, “sonoma-travel”, “burgundy-restaurants”, “napa-restaurants”, “san francisco restaurants”, and so on?
Hey Todd, I know you’re working on some stuff but my ‘board index’ tab isn’t working, it just gives me all the users; is anyone else having this problem?
Looks like this-instead of listing all the forums
