WordPress Global Tags seem like a nice feature. They allow you to see what other bloggers on WordPress.com are blogging about by clicking on the different categories, which is all very well and good if you are interested in looking at this stuff on other blogs. What if you’re not? What if you want to click on a category link and get all the related posts in that category only on the current blog you are reading? Can it be done? Not that I can see. And that’s the thing which is really pissing me off right now! If I could get my hands on the person who thought it was a great idea to enable this for everyone by default, and not make it optional or something which could be enabled or disabled by the blog owner, I would really love to beat the crap out of them, particularly after the hours and hours I have spent in the last two weeks moving all my links to this blog. I really liked WordPress until this! I’m seriously going to have to consider moving my blog elsewhere.
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I strongly agree. I prefer the category search to be limited to the blog in question.
Wooh, something weird there. You should have given me a shout
The category links on the sidebar are fixed, now don’t you love us?
That’s weird. When I first read that, I thought. That’s funny. My ‘Software’ category always produces my blog articles tagged with ‘Software’ but I when saw yours going global, I thought I was going mad.
What fantastic, prompt and personal service from Donncha & WP, eh ?
Cheers D, that’s brilliant! Didn’t want to abuse my connections!
Saying that I hate the global tags feature is misleading, I just hate the way it is implemented. I think it’s a great feature but one that should be optional for the blog owner to enable if they wished. It also, in my opinion, needs to be clarified a lot more. Maybe it would be possible to have two icons for each category, a standard text link for local categories and a small icon e.g. with the WordPress logo on it for the global tags link.
From what I was reading, this appeared to be enabled for everybody which is why I did not want to ask for special treatment to get it changed to suit me.
I’ve always been impressed with WordPress and the way it is constantly evolving, and yes I love it again!
Thanks, yet again, for your help. I owe you a pint.
Andy C, it pays to have friends in high places. Donncha happens to be a friend of mine. It’s even his fault I’m married now!
Hope I didn’t speak too soon. The category links in the sidebar work fine linking to local posts, but the category links under the posts still link to global tags.
Yeah, that’s the way they’re supposed to work here and I agree, the implementation possibly needs looking at.
Did Donncha not mention anything about a $500 one-off payment and $250 per month for this special treatment ?
I know where he lives!
how did you get this three-letter subdomain when only 4 letter subdomains are allowed?
I know nothing about how many letters are allowed in sub-domains. All I know is that when I signed up over a year ago, I was invited in by Donncha, and put in my details for blog name/sub-domain it was accepted immediately. I read nothing at the time with regard to how many letters, etc. Maybe a restriction, if one exists, was implemented after this.