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Announcing Module nimbus for all users of Phil Taylor Joomla! tags

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Published on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:00

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I am a very happy user of Joomla! tags from Phil Taylor. My only complaints is that it is still not part of Joomla!® core.

Joomla!® Tags is a Joomla Extension for adding tags to Joomla!® Content.
Use Joomla Tags to allow content classification by keywords (Tags), can also be used to create virtual categories to add content into, over coming Joomla!® single section/category structure
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Joomla! tagging solution

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Published on Friday, 05 September 2008 00:00

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I have way too much article now on this site...I just can't find any articles anymore (except with Google). That's the right time to introduce tags!

Tags are used to store information about a document, image or other online content to help searching. Social networking web sites such as Flickr.com (photo-sharing) and del.icio.us (bookmark sharing) use member-created tags as a means of organizing and popularizing content.

Unfortunately Joomla! does not have this functionality in its core... but thanks to Joomla! extensible plugin architecture, many solutions are available:

Joomla! Tags from Phil-Taylor (http://www.joomla-tags.com/)

The "oldest" and with famous Phil Taylor support, you pay for a premium component and a very good software. Only drawback: it is not open source and free as in beer.

• Simple - Very Simple!
• Inclusive - No programming needed!
• Powerful - Total Control
• Flexible - Add tags in many ways
• Unlimited - Tags creates new pages
• Google Bait - Google loves Tags
• PHP5 Supported !!!!
• 100% Translatable
• More feature being developed daily at the moment (May 2007)
• Now 100% compatible with: Fireboard, Joomla 1.5.x, Joomla 1.0.x, Official SMF Bridge, OpenSEF, SEF Advance and Joom!Fish !!!
• Joomla Tags is a Joomla extension, two modules and mambot that gives you the power and ability to tag content and to produce tag links, keyword clouds and pages within your Joomla Web site
• Works on Joomla 1.5.x WITH or WITHOUT legacy plugin enabled!
• Works on Joomla 1.0.x

Jtags (http://jacekzielinski.com/)

Free open source Joomla! Tagging Solution. Powerful & Simple!

While editing, below the article text box, there is a new text field "insert tags" like in the picture:

• User is able to tag content without clicking on Insert Tags button.
  Tags are saved automatically just after article is saved, so everything is saved after clicking on the main Save button.
• The demo site of Jtags is here
• Download from here

Joomla Tags Component and Tag Cloud Module

A promising component with Ajax and nearly all functionality of joomla! Tags, it is for sure not as mature and still in alpha stage for both Joomla! 1.0 and Joomla! 1.5.x

Homepage: http://www.fijiwebdesign.com/products/joomla-tag-component.html
Forum: http://www.fijiwebdesign.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,54/

Installation:
You'll need to install the Tag Component and the Tag Content Plugin and publish it in order to get it working.
Optional are the Tag Cloud Module and the Auto Tag Plugin.

Tag Cloud Component Features:

• It can be linked to the menu, to display a tag cloud in its own page. eg: http://www.visitirelandguide.com/tags/
• It can display tagged content in a list: http://www.visitirelandguide.com/tags/ireland/
• It can display an RSS format for each tag content: http://www.visitirelandguide.com/index2.php?option=com_tag&tag=ireland&f=rss20&no_html=1
• Preview of tagged articles
• Related tags views - Tags related to a set of tags
• Tags administration, publish, add, edit, delete, filters etc.

Joomla Tag Content Plugin Features:

• Displays the tags inline in articles
• Registered users can add tags.
• Adding tags is done via AJAX in the background, while the tags update automatically.

Joomla Tag Cloud Module Features:

• Displays a tag cloud - alphabetical, with tag density determining size of the tag.
• Displays a related tag cloud - A density based cloud for the content being viewed, whether section, category, or list of tagged articles, or list of tags.

Joomla Auto Tag Plugin Features:

• Automatically tags each Content Item when viewed.
• At the moment, single keyword tags are pulled from the title, however we plan to add full context analysis, 2,3 word phrases, stemming etc. in the future versions.

So you can expect to enjoy tags on my site in a near future... as soon as I did test all 3 solutions on my test site.

cedTag 2.6.2 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

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Category: Joomla

Published on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 20:46

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cedTag provide a useful way to group related posts together and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Tags also make it easier for people to find your content. Tags are similar to, but more specific than, Joomla categories.

Read more: cedTag 2.6.2 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

Joomla tags, slowly but surely

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Published on Monday, 22 September 2008 00:00

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I am currently checking all articles without tags, so far only 622 articles (on 1359 articles) have no tags at all...

For those, that want to list all articles having no tags, fire up your favorite SQL browser, and just execute:

select title from jos_content where id not in (SELECT contentid FROM jos_tag_category_map);

This will return all articles without any tags.

I am slowly trying to change that. By the way, It seems more and more people browse my homepage again (50'000 per months) which is 1/10th of last year, but it goes up everyday. As always, no good content, no high page rank.

I will try to concentrate a bit on Joomla Comment development, and also publish some good articles that are waiting  in my draft folder.

Module Nimbus for Joomla! 1.6 & Joomla-Tags

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Published on Tuesday, 28 December 2010 14:45

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I came across Joomulus module a while ago (Joomulus at Joomla Extensions JED), it goes through your Joomla! articles content and create a tag cloud.

A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color.

This is the solution you are looking for, and you should not need to read any further if you DO NOT USE Joomla! Tags from Phil Taylor.

But I am using a proprietary tagging solutions: Joomla Tags from Phil Taylor (http://www.joomla-tags.com)

Joomla Tags is a Joomla Extension for adding tags to Joomla Content. Use Joomla Tags to allow content classification by keywords (Tags), can also be used to create virtual categories to add content into, over coming Joomla! single section/category structure

That’s why I decide to dump Joomulus, and mix both solutions (Joomulus, Joomla tags) to create a new module: Nimbus (Free GPl v3)

So for resuming

• You want to use/have a license of Joomla! tags from Phil Taylor (http://www.joomla-tags.com): You can use the module Nimbus to have a great visual effect
• You dont want to pay for a tagging solution, go for Joomulus (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/6493/details) or Joomla! Tags (http://www.joomlatags.org/)

What’s new

NEW: version 1.6.0 is only for Joomla! 1.6
NEW: This version use the Joomla! build in update manager, just browse to the page Extension Manager: Update (at yoursite/administrator/index.php?option=com_installer&view=update) to fetch and update this extension with one click
NEW: Use Joomla! templating best practices
NEW: Now use the /media directory
NEW: Embeded documentation windows to live wiki page for always up to date documentation

Features

• Native Joomla! 1.5/1.6 module,
• Code produced is XHTML 1.0 Strict,
• Tested in the following browser Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE 8
• Approved at Joomla Extension JED,
• GPL v3.0,
• Non commercial.

The wiki page is here http://wiki.waltercedric.com/index.php?title=NimbusForJoomlaTags

Demo site

• Joomla! 1.5 http://demo-joomla-1.5.waltercedric.com/
• Joomla! 1.6 http://demo-joomla-1.6.waltercedric.com/

 DOWNLOAD HERE AND KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE DOWNLOAD RSS

cedTag 2.6.1 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

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Published on Monday, 07 January 2013 19:47

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cedTag provide a useful way to group related posts together and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Tags also make it easier for people to find your content. Tags are similar to, but more specific than, Joomla categories.

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IT IS MANDATORAY TO COMPLETELY REMOVE ALL VERSION < 2.6.0 BEFORE INSTALLING THIS NEW ONE!
Go to the Extension Manager under the tab Manage, enter in filter "tag", select all and click Actions – Uninstall
Reason: I did change a lot of folder name and file casing casing to be more Joomla compliant
Don’t be scared you will not loose any Tags or data from your database! uninstalling do not remove currently any tables!

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cedTag 2.6.0 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

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Published on Sunday, 04 November 2012 11:35

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Warning

IT IS MANDATORAY TO COMPLETELY REMOVE ALL VERSION < 2.6.0 BEFORE INSTALLING THIS NEW ONE!
Go to the Extension Manager under the tab Manage, enter in filter "tag", select all and click Actions – Uninstall
Reason: I did change a lot of folder name and file casing casing to be more Joomla compliant
Don’t be scared you will not loose any Tags or data from your database! uninstalling do not remove currently any tables!

Your ideas are important, feel free to contact me and ask for new features!

New & Noteworthy

Read more: cedTag 2.6.0 for J2.5 released for Joomla 2.5

cedTag 2.6.0 for Joomla 2.5 warning

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Category: Joomla

Published on Monday, 01 October 2012 20:19

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This step is mandatory as I did change folder name and file casing to be more Joomla compliant!

Don’t be scared you will not loose any Tags or data from your database! uninstalling do not remove currently any tables!

cedTag 2.6.0 is due to be released in 1-2 days!

Tags & Folksonomy are now active: I need your help!

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Published on Sunday, 07 September 2008 00:00

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I've bought yesterday a licence for Joomla! Tags at a bargain: 23 euro, and it has been activated since.

I use Joomla Tags to allow content classification by keywords (Tags), it will be used to create virtual categories to add content into, over coming Joomla's single section/category structure.

You can access it using in top menu (http://www.waltercedric.com/tags.html), this will show you the most popular/clicked/used tags...

Folksonomy ???

Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is generated not only by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary. Folksonomy is a portmanteau of the words folk and taxonomy, hence a Folksonomy is a user generated taxonomy. [WikiPedia]

Not all 2000 articles are tagged...I can't just tag them all alone. That is why you are now able to tag articles yourself!

At the end of all articles, there is a small AJAX powered input box, that allow you to enter a set of tag corresponding to the articles. All submitted tags are reviewed and moderated by me of course.

I did invest in that plugin since a lot of persons (including me) have now issues to find the right articles in my homepage. Tagging may help to resolve that issue.

My only regret is that Meta Weblog or Movable XML-RPC API is not ready yet for submitting tags....

cedTag 2.5.5 for J2.5 Released

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Category: Joomla

Published on Wednesday, 30 May 2012 21:34

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CedTag  has been updated to version 2.5.5 and correct a lot of bugs and contains some nice new features.

CedTag is the continuation of the GPL component Joomla Tags (www.joomlatags.org), Most of the code if not all has been now rewritten according to the new standard of Joomla 2.5, the component has been greatly extended and most bugs have been removed. I will continue removing, refactoring existing codebase, in order to be able to add new features faster.

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