I’m also thinking about adding this feature. But I’m not sure if it makes sense. What if the exact words can not be found in text? Just ignore that? Or generate a list of nout found tags? What if there are a lot of posts? The list would be very long… Any suggestions?
Yea the quickest way I can think to do it is by exporting your terms, find and replace with a “#” before each term.
Then find and replace the “-” in the term slug column with “”. I ran into a few issues while doing it (5,000+ terms), so had to go back to the original format, but am still working on a solution.
Any help is appreciated as well!
So I installed the plugin, and all my new posts with hashtags get properly tagged in wordpress…my problem is that the hundreds of older posts didn’t get treated the same way.
I’m not asking for it to turn tags into hashtags in the text, I’m just looking for the ability to have older posts processed the same way new posts are processed.
Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean with “I’m just looking for the ability to have older posts processed the same way new posts are processed”.
What should be processed the same way if there are no hashtags in existing posts?
Hashtags are converted into normal tags. So this is fully compatible with all your existing posts. The tag archive pages show both – posts with hashtags and posts without.
If you don’t want to turn existing tags into hashtags I think everything should already work fine for you.
Here’s the example:
1) I have a blog with 1000 existing posts, that have hashtags in the posts, but not normal tags (say, because I just generally used hashtags in my posts even before hashtagger existed);
2) I install #hashtagger;
3) New posts with hashtags in the posts get normal tags thanks to hashtagger;
4) My 1000 old posts don’t have their hashtags converted to normal tags.
Thanks for clarifying. I thought exactly the other way round. This case is a lot easier. Either I’ll add this as a funtion to the hashtagger Plugin or create a second Plugin as an Add-On for hashtagger. Maybe second solution is the better one because you’ll need this only once. I’ll think about…
Any idea on when you’ll be able to get around to this? I would really love to be able to keep existing tags even when they’re not listed in the content, and to process existing tags for future use.
Currently I’m having a lot on my plate so I can’t promise anything.
The brand new Version 3.0 comes with this feature!
