Drigg site configuration #8 – taxonomy tweaks
Posted by: admin in site_development, tags: drigg, drupal, site_development, social ratingThe most excellent tagadelic module comes as part of the core Drigg/Drupal release, to provide block- and page-views of tags for items. Tags are created in the “tag” vocabulary of the taxonomy module, by freetagging when items are submitted.
The default configuration in Drigg, is to have tags link only to Promoted items (and not to Upcoming or Archived items). I understand why some might want this (and it makes sense for search engine optimization, an issue which is irrelevant for my site, but might be significant for others) – but I chose to have tags link to items regardless of promotion status.
At
Adminster > site configuration > tagadelic configuration
untick the checkbox for “Only consider tags of promoted stories”
I’ve added 2 contributed Drupal modules to tweak taxonomy for tags on the site:
The edit_term module requires no configuration; it provides a handy interface for the site administrator to easily edit existing taxonomy terms, assign related terms and synonyms.
Taxonomy_similar also requires no configuration. I’m playing with this, and not yet sure that I want to keep it in my installation. After submitting an item, it displays a page with the tags used, and suggests any “similar” tags as alternatives to those used. It does add an additional step to the submission process; but it might be useful to help consolidate tags and avoid “tag scatter” with the accumulation of related terms. We’ll see.
I’m experimenting with the taxonomy_hide module. Currently the Categories vocabulary shows up along with the Tag vocabulary in the “tags” for items; this module offers a way to hide display of these Category terms. I’ll post my comments on this shortly in a comment to this post.
I’m also considering adding the community_tags module, to permit users (in addition to the individual who submitted the item) to feetag submitted items. Again, I’ll post my comments on this after I’ve given it a spin on this platform.
addendum – I’ve decided to use both the taxonomy_hide and community_tags modules – see the comments appended to this post.
Table of contents for drigg site configuration
- Drigg site configuration – #1
- Drigg site configuration #2 – theme
- Drigg site configuration #3 – menus
- Drigg site configuration #4 – bookmarklet
- Drigg site configuration #5 – restrict registration
- Drigg site configuration #6 – addn’l modules
- Drigg site configuration #7 – authorship
- Drigg site configuration #8 – taxonomy tweaks
- Drigg site configuration #9 – related links
- Drigg site configuration #10 – promotion strategies
- Drigg site configuration #11 – string overrides
- Drigg site configuration #12 – to aggregate or not to aggregate …
- Drigg site configuration #13 – subcategories
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Have given the taxonomy_hide module a good test drive, and decided to keep it.
After installing,
At
Administer > site configuration > taxonomy hide,
in the Hide Vocabularies dialog,
tick the Category checkbox.
Now the Tags: text on the nodes, will include only Tags vocabulary, without Category vocabulary intermixed. The separate Category: text will still come through fine.
I’ve also decided to add the community_tags module. My initial reservations were around congestion when this was enabled for inline community tagging, but the tab option (see below) looks & works great.
After installing,
at
administer > site configuration > community tags
select, for Community Vocabularies, “tags”
at
administer > access control; community tags module,
give authenticated users permission both to tag content and to edit own tags
at
administer > content types > Scoop
near the bottom of the page, select “Tab” as the Community Tagging form (the “inline” option is too congested in the Drigg theme; some tweaking of the theme, however, might make this a viable option)
The “example” tags described below the community tag submit field, are in line 362 of the file community_tags.module in the community_tags module directory; this text could be changed to be more suitable to the content of your site.
Now, when viewing a node (single item view), a tab will appear at the top of the page labeled “tags” -
opening this will permit any authenticated user to add tags to an existing item, tapping into the same taxonomy vocabulary in use for primary tagging of items when submitted.
Quote: At Adminster > site configuration > tagadelic configuration
untick the checkbox for “Only consider tags of promoted stories”
in my case:
admin>settings>drigg module> untic the check box: “Only show promoted drigg stories when viewing a tag”
Leaving this to TRUE is good for SEO, since only promoted stories will get tag-related pagerank”
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