Tag Essentials - with AI auto tagging and XFRM support [Paid] 2.5.7
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Stuart Wright
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Stuart Wright
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You’re talking about the tag cloud. The bigger the tags, the more often they are used.
80sDude
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Ah ok. Thank you.
Hi Stewart - question: is it possible to adjust any of the Tag Essentials code so that tag filters (e.g., clicked on from the tag cloud widget) refine existing results from any prefix filters used (i.e., work as an AND operator with prefix filters)?
Case in point, this page you previously linked (https://www.avforums.com/forums/lg-tvs-forum.91) uses both prefix filters (on top) and tag filters (in the tag cloud sidebar widget). On that page, I can filter for threads with "Question" prefixes or I can filter for threads that use the "television" tag, but I can't readily filter for threads involving questions about televisions. That is, if I filter for "question" prefix threads, then try to filter for "television" tag threads, the filter will reset and I'll only see results of the tag filter.
On my forum, it would really be great if these filters stacked on top of each other using an AND operator, giving users the ability to narrow threads using both prefixes and threads. Is there some easy way to manipulate the code for the Tag Essentials add-on (the add-on I'm using right now; I'm not currently using Prefix Essentials) to make this work? Would you consider adding this functionality to Tag Essentials (and/or Prefix Essentials) in a future update?
Thanks!
Case in point, this page you previously linked (https://www.avforums.com/forums/lg-tvs-forum.91) uses both prefix filters (on top) and tag filters (in the tag cloud sidebar widget). On that page, I can filter for threads with "Question" prefixes or I can filter for threads that use the "television" tag, but I can't readily filter for threads involving questions about televisions. That is, if I filter for "question" prefix threads, then try to filter for "television" tag threads, the filter will reset and I'll only see results of the tag filter.
On my forum, it would really be great if these filters stacked on top of each other using an AND operator, giving users the ability to narrow threads using both prefixes and threads. Is there some easy way to manipulate the code for the Tag Essentials add-on (the add-on I'm using right now; I'm not currently using Prefix Essentials) to make this work? Would you consider adding this functionality to Tag Essentials (and/or Prefix Essentials) in a future update?
Thanks!
Stuart Wright
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How would you propose that the UI for both the prefix filter and the tag cloud be changed so that users can choose to replace the existing filter (as we have now) or add to it?
I'd say that, at minimum, it'd be great if this option was provided to the admin in the ACP (maybe as part of the tag cloud widget settings). Maybe have a checkbox labelled something like "tag filter queries against existing filters" in the widget that the admin can check or leave unchecked to control tag filtering behavior. I'd wager admins generally know what makes the most sense on their forum in terms of prefixes and tags being mutually exclusive or if they should be used together when filtering. It might also be nice for the user to control these settings in the UI but like I said, at minimum I'd make it an admin option and I think that would address most use cases. I appreciate you considering my thoughts on this!
Stuart Wright
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It would be a bad idea to change the way it works site wide because people are used to how it currently works and some people will prefer it that way. So you have to give people an option. So how would you give people an option each time they use a search filter in the prefix filter and the tag cloud?
For me, I don't really have any traffic yet, so I'd be happy to just make that the way filtering works site-wide or on a widget-by-widget basis. But my needs may not be representative of everyone so I'll definitely defer to your experience on this
. Good point about giving people the option in the UI...I'd personally be hesitate to add an extra bell+whistle because I tend to be conservative in terms of design and want to keep things as simple as possible...so not sure. I personally wouldn't want people to have the option at all, since I think querying prefixes and tags together makes more intuitive sense for the type of filtering people would be doing on my site. So for that reason I'd prefer just having an enable/disable option in the ACP (site-wide or for each widget) and avoiding extra clutter in the UI. But that's just me 
.Anyways, please just consider this a "suggestion box" item. Again, I really just appreciate you taking the time to consider it!
Stuart Wright
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You can choose how many, but the point of the cloud is that is shows the most popular.
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Stuart Wright updated Tag Essentials - with AI auto tagging and XFRM support with a new update entry:
Improvement to blacklisting tags
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Improvement to blacklisting tags
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Stuart Wright
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If you read the description you will see that it does.
It actually suggests tags based on the forum name, thread title and first post text. This way we’re getting more useful results even if the title and first post are garbage.
