After performing some search engine optimisation for this blog by setting up wpSEO I discovered UTW (Ultimate Tag Warrier). This plugin will allow wpSEO to add tags as keywords to the meta tags for posts, which would be a far smarter idea than the current wpSEO behavior of adding the first 20 or so words of the entry as keywords. Until now I’ve been using categories in Wordpress as if they were tags, and as a result I have lots and lots of categories.
Installation is as simple as any Wordpress plugin, and the configuration (Options, Tags) allows you to set how tags look in the URL, add tags as keywords in the page meta information (I’m letting wpSEO do this), automatically add links to tags, and automatically add categories as tags.
By far the most impressive feature for me is the Tag Suggestions (courtesy of Yahoo!) because now I can just click a button and then select relevant tags from the list provided. A nice way of adding tags you almost forgot!
Update: Setting up the tag cloud took some time, and involved editing some themes but it’s there now and I’ve reduced the number of cataegories so it’s all looking good now.