Technorati tagging your posts in WordPress can be achieved in a number of ways.
The key is doing it in such a way as to minimise effort on the bloggers part.
The simplest way of doing it is via your blog’s categories, as technorati will consider an entry in the “wordpress” category to be tagged with the tag wordpress.
On the plus side this method is completely automatic, but if you wanted to insert a particular tag into your post you would have to have a category with the corresponding name.
Another method is to use an external plugin to create custom fields on a per post basis. One such plugin is Ben O’Neill’s which, although easy to use, requires the manual addition of tags in the editing screen of wordpress.
Although I don’t mind doing that to a point it does mean that each post requires extra work and also means that you cannot post to your blog via email or other methods and tag your entries at the same time.
Denis de Bernardy has produced a series of plugins that do away with all the hassle.
His extract terms plugin uses Yahoo’s API to pull keywords and phrases out of your posts so that you can then use them for other plugins, either written by him or by any other developer.
For technorati tagging he has released an addon that will convert the Yahoo terms into technorati links
All you have to do is add a new template tag into your template to display the tags.
Amount of effort involved? Zero!
Denis’ plugins collection also includes a “dofollow” plugin, that reverses the rel=nofollow for comments. Very handy if you want to put links back in to your blog.
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