Comments on: Copy Categories to Tags – The Plugin

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By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:13:59 +0000

Hi! Thanks for the plugin! I was looking for the same thing and this worked great after a few tweaks. With 600+ posts I wasn’t looking forward to moving each over one by one but, like you, I wanted to still keep many of the categories in tact for link purposes so the converter wouldn’t cut it for me.

My only problem was that I don’t have my blog in the same directory as the index file so I just had to go in and add a /blog in front of the link in the php file and all worked well!

Thanks again!

By: skiaddict

skiaddict — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:39:23 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work for posts that have multiple categories – appreciate the effort though!

By: Herr Rau

Herr Rau — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:08:17 +0000

Works fine!

By: Josh Kenzer

Josh Kenzer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:04:07 +0000

I’ve made both the changes that Herr and charlie suggested. I’ve uploaded the new zip file.

I also got the permissions to post it to extend.wordpress.org, so I will be doing that shortly.

By: charlie

charlie — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:58:06 +0000

Hi there, thanks for the very useful plugin – I ran into the same problem as Herr Rau, above, but the problem was easily fixed. It should be just a matter of appending the bloginfo(‘url’) function ahead of the form action and most users shouldn’t have a problem. Perhaps you could implement both that as well as the db prefix change for a future release.

I used to use UTW’s feature of automatically copying categories to tags as I selected them, but since version 2.3, I’d been neglectful in my tagging, so your plugin was great for getting me back on track. Thanks.

By: Herr Rau

Herr Rau — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:49:47 +0000

Thanks for the plugin, I’ve been looking for a way to switch to tags while keeping most categories, for similar reasons to yours.

A slight suggestion: In your plugin, you have hardcoded the database table prefix as “wp_” – my prefix is different, so I used the $wpdb->prefix variable instead to make it work.

(Actually, I did nothing of the sort. I just hardcoded *my* prefix, but really should have used the variable.)

Also, my installation is not in the root but in a folder, so to get the plugin to work I had to change the form action from:
“/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=copy_…”
to:
“plugins.php?page=copy_…”
to get it to work.

But now it works beautifully, thanks.

By: Josh Kenzer

Josh Kenzer — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:58:48 +0000

Yes, for the current WordPress version, the plugin is called Simple Tags (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags) and it’s pretty awesome. However, in the next major release of WordPress, this functionality is built in.

By: Wolfy

Wolfy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:32:05 +0000

Is there a plugin that lets you select tags from a list in wordpress the way you can select categories? Cause w/o that tags are kinda lame cause you end up duplicating tags i.e. “bike” and “bikes” etc…