Tag Essentials [Deleted]

[Mouth]

Just view your forum in the default theme and tell me if the pop up still appears under everything. The z index is what controls that.

No, it doesn't pop-up underneath on the default theme. Working as expected on default theme.
FYI, that's what I thought I was answering a few posts above. Sorry for being unclear.

 

[kontrabass]

Is it possible to add a "select all" and checkboxes to the tag management page? I have ended up with 8 pages of spam tags that I'd like to get rid of. Currently after I delete each tag it takes me back to page one, so it's a tedious process...



Solving this problem before it starts would also be cool: when a user is spam-cleaned, it appears any tags they created are still in the list (and thus attempted to be indexed by Google):

 

[Daniel Hood]

Well, they aren't permanent tags so they should have been deleted since there's no content associated with them. I feel like this is either a bug or maybe the deferred tasks just haven't run yet.

 

[CTXMedia]

Well, they aren't permanent tags so they should have been deleted since there's no content associated with them. I feel like this is either a bug or maybe the deferred tasks just haven't run yet.

Doesn't the spam cleaner soft-delete - does soft deleting retain tags?

 

[kontrabass]

Well, they aren't permanent tags so they should have been deleted since there's no content associated with them. I feel like this is either a bug or maybe the deferred tasks just haven't run yet.

I think I found the reason... we have our spam cleaner set to "soft delete threads", and apparently tags associated with soft-deleted threads are not removed by cron

 

[Daniel Hood]

Doesn't the spam cleaner soft-delete - does soft deleting retain tags?

The tag uses column seems to indicate they don't. I'm not sure to be honest. I'll look at the code to see later.

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I think I found the reason... we have our spam cleaner set to "soft delete threads", and apparently tags associated with soft-deleted threads are not removed by cron

Apparently I'm wrong.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Regardless though, you don't have to manually delete them. Whenever you permanently delete the threads, the tags will be removed. In the mean time, they only show up in your admin panel. They won't auto complete, be in your site map, or any other visible place to the end user.

 

[Freelancer]

With the latest version of UI.X default theme 1.5.3.1, the tag hover popup does not work anymore. I think a JS conflict maybe.

 

[Daniel Hood]

No, it doesn't pop-up underneath on the default theme. Working as expected on default theme.
FYI, that's what I thought I was answering a few posts above. Sorry for being unclear.

I'm going to have to look at your site specifically and adjust the css accordingly. Could you private message me admin access to your site? I can't just increase the z-index which is what I thought the initial solution was going to be.

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Everyone else, I'm going to be posting 1.5.0 soon:

What's New:

• Option to display tags below the thread title on the thread list.
• Option to automatically pull wiki content from wikipedia for new tags (when the tag is first created, if this option is enabled, the wiki description will be populated with the content from wikipedia's api -- if possible).
• Adjusted the "Edit Wiki" link in the admin panel to reflect if a tag already has a wiki description.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Daniel Hood updated Tag Essentials with a new update entry:

1.5.0

What's New:

• Option to display tags below the thread title on the thread list.
• Option to automatically pull wiki content from wikipedia for new tags (when the tag is first created, if this option is enabled, the wiki description will be populated with the content from wikipedia's api -- if possible).
• Adjusted the "Edit Wiki" link in the admin panel to reflect if a tag already has a wiki description.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Fred.]

Is it allowed to pull the content from Wikipedia?
What about duplicate content?

 

[Daniel Hood]

Is it allowed to pull the content from Wikipedia?
What about duplicate content?

I'm not scraping Wikipedia; I'm using their api. I didn't actually read the terms of use but I made the assumption (I know that's not always the best thing to do) that if they provide it in a nicely formatted json feed with an api endpoint then they anticipate people taking the content.

What do you mean what about duplicate content?

 

[Fred.]

I'm not scraping Wikipedia; I'm using their api. I didn't actually read the terms of use but I made the assumption (I know that's not always the best thing to do) that if they provide it in a nicely formatted json feed with an api endpoint then they anticipate people taking the content.

What do you mean what about duplicate content?

Ok, then they must allow it.

Not really duplicate content, I mean you just copy there content so it's not unique anymore.
If they have an API for that it should not be a problem as long as you not pulling to much from it.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

What do you mean what about duplicate content?

If it is an exact clone of their info, I thought google penalized you big time depending on the date of who published it first, which will always be wikipedia if you are using their API. I figured they created it more for none search/seo based reasons, most likely for education and other kinds of reasons.

But someone who wants to just piggy back off Wikipedia's text for their tags exclusively for SEO would be in for a rude awakening.

 

[Daniel Hood]

It's not a literal copy of the entire page. It's mostly just a decent sized excerpt. An example may help: here is "Samsung" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?...extracts&exintro=&explaintext=&titles=samsung

Incase you can't view json in a friendly format (I have JSONView chrome extension installed but the average person doesn't) here's the quote:

Samsung (Hangul: 삼성; hanja: 三星; Korean pronunciation: [sʰamsʰʌŋ]) is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate). Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades, the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since 1990s, Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income. Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's 2nd-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36th-largest construction companies). Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 15th-largest advertising agency measured by 2012 revenues). Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River". Its affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports. Samsung's revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea's $1,082 billion GDP.

Obviously a very small portion of their wikipedia page. It gives you a decent start though. Ideally you would add on to the copied description. It's mostly just a tool to help.

It's worth mentioning that this feature can be disabled (and is actually disabled by default).

 

[Fred.]

If it is an exact clone of their info, I thought google penalized you big time depending on the date of who published it first, which will always be wikipedia if you are using their API. I figured they created it more for none search/seo based reasons, most likely for education and other kinds of reasons.

But someone who wants to just piggy back off Wikipedia's text for their tags exclusively for SEO would be in for a rude awakening.

Yeah, I also think it's not that good for SEO. I don't think Google likes it. It might work for a while until they find out.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

I think the idea of carefully writing and controlling the information on tags is worth while, I personally won't let users edit it like a wiki and instead I plan to painstakingly every so often purge and upkeep some tags and meticulously write in a very controlled manner for SEO purposes.

However @Daniel Hood perhaps adding an optional....option to have Tag info that comes directly from Wikipedia wrapped around in that one tag that google bots ignore. Assuming users want to do that.

 

[maxicep]

New option auto pull wiki content from wikipedia is perfectly. I will upgrade it as soon as possible. But i m interesting with that it pulls just from official english wikipedia? Or you have support wikipedia in other languages ? Because our visitors and forum not for English users. Thanks

 

[Mouth]

Daniel Hood updated Tag Essentials with a new update entry:
1.5.0

"New Posts" page ( /find-new/posts ) is giving a modal pop-up 404 not found error every time it's loaded, with the new version.


I've disabled the add-on for now.

EDIT: Problem resolved after a few minutes. Seems likely my CDN hadn't yet retrieved/cached a new js/css/img and the CDN was reporting the 404 until it had retrieved.

 

[Sunka]

"New Posts" page ( /find-new/posts ) is giving a modal pop-up 404 not found error every time it's loaded, with the new version.

Working good on my side.

Like it on forum thread list, but not looking good in thread list when listing new posts