eaten by a grue

Tonight I wrote a simple tag plugin for blosxom (the blog engine I use), imported all the categories from the old Wordpress blog as tags, and wrote some CSS to make it work properly. There's still a bit more to do, notably making the tags into links that take you to ther posts tagged the same thing as well as getting per-tag feeds going (though the RSS plugin needs a lot of work anyway).

The plugin, for the curious:

package tags;

use vars qw($tags);

sub start { 1 }

sub story {
    my ($pkg, $currentdir, $head_ref) = @_;

    $tags = '';
    if ($meta::tags) {
        my @tags = split /\s+/, $meta::tags;
        $tags = "<div class='tags'>tags: <ul>";
        $tags .= "<li>$_</li>" for @tags;
        $tags .= "</ul></div>";
    }
}

1;

Obviously, its really the meta plugin that does most of the heavy lifting.

So now at the top of a post I write something like:

meta-tags: site perl

and tags pop out. Lovely!