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Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin Release

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I am very proud and happy to release my 5th plugin for the WordPress community. The plugin called Better Tags Manager (BTM) makes your life easier when it comes to editing tags for your posts.

Better Tags Manager (BTM) was created out of my own needs to completely do away with categories and move to tags. The problem arose when, converting categories to tags left many of my posts hanging in between with no tags.

That said editing tags was also not easy for me and that is the reason I created this plugin which is the best and easy way to edit tags, manage tags, delete them, bulk edit tags and add tags to multiple posts without even editing them individually.

So What Does better Tags Manager Do?

Better Tags Manager (BTM) allows you to edit tags from the manage post section without having to visit the post itself.

In addition to that it will allow you to filter out posts which do not have tags and edit or bulk edit them. If you do not want to edit tags individually you can filter out and edit bulk posts at once by choosing the bulk edit option.

A nice little feature with the plugin is that it will also allow you to add tags to multiple posts without having to edit a single post. So say you want to tag all posts with “chicken” in it as “Birds” simply use the search option and search for chicken.

On the top of the page you will see a option to add tags to all the posts, simply add the tags and select the posts you want to add the tags to and click on the “Add Tags to All Posts” button and the tags will be appended (in this case we append the tags) to the posts you selected.

The possibilities of usage for this plugin are huge and its up to how you use it to get the most benefits.

Read-me and FAQ for the plugin will be coming up shortly.

I have not added any screenshots for this plugin, since I have something more better. I have added videos to demonstrate the usage for this plugin. So go ahead view it and give me your opinions and feedback. I would love to improve on the plugin.

Update: I am apparently having problems with the size of the videos, click on the links below till I fix the issue.

Click here to Better Tags Manager Tutorial / Usage Video 1

Click here to Better Tags Manager Tutorial / Usage Video 2

Click here to Better Tags Manager Tutorial / Usage Video 3

Download and Installation Details

Installation

Installation is simple. Just unzip the better-tags-manager.zipinto your plugins folder and activate the plugin.

Requirements

WordPress 2.5 and above

Usage

Check the videos for usage demonstration

ChangeLog

  • Version 0.1 released Saturday, May 24th 2008

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the General Public License(GPL).

Support

If you feel this plugin has helped you can leave a small donation towards further plugin development.

Donate

If you think this plugin is helpful to you, you can thank me by making a small donation towards plugin development expenses.

Download

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  1. Rockstar Sid on May 24th, 2008 at 11:34 pm #

    Woow lemme check out the video and try it… i will let you know soon about this!

  2. Rockstar Sid on May 24th, 2008 at 11:41 pm #

    I just saw the first video for 20 seconds and understood about this plugin.

    Awesome dude! I will surely review about this plugin :-)

  3. Shankar Ganesh on May 25th, 2008 at 12:52 am #

    Keith, fantastic job! I’m sure this is going to make life easier for lazy people like me lol.

  4. Haris on May 25th, 2008 at 3:47 am #

    Congrats on your latest plugin, Keith! I’d try it on my blog and let you know about it :)

  5. Ram on May 25th, 2008 at 2:58 pm #

    Congrats dude, i will test it and see how it goes.

  6. Nirmal on May 26th, 2008 at 8:09 am #

    I’ll be trying it out today, your plugins are always useful.

  7. Ashero on May 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm #

    Hi Keith… I have a question, lets say you added tags to a lot of posts but you made a mistake by adding a tag to a post that didn’t need the tag, could you undo the mistake but still manage to leave the tags on the posts that was correct? Thanks… Ashero

    • Keith Dsouza on May 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am #

      Ashero you cannot exactly undo it, but as soon as the tags are added you will get a option to edit them so you can effectively make changes right then and there.

  8. Betty on May 27th, 2008 at 12:29 am #

    Works great …. thanks!

  9. Betty on May 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am #

    How come my posts don’t work. Never spammed before and it seems they don’t register?????

  10. Betty on May 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am #

    Hmmm……..another tags plug….yawn

    http://www.zulit.com

  11. Cywhale on May 27th, 2008 at 2:36 am #

    Thank you very much, missed that feature for a long time, I even considered writing a plugin like that, too :)

  12. Craig McCourt on May 27th, 2008 at 8:43 am #

    Thank You Thank You – Since most of my posts did not have tags I was wanting to add them to them all but dreading it – this should be MUCH easier!

    < Craig
    http://www.godponders.org

  13. Gamma on May 27th, 2008 at 9:46 am #

    The plugin looks ideal, I have four years of posts without tags, but I got this error message when I tried to activate it.
    Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/lib/better_tags_manager_js.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/gammablog.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/gammablog.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/better-tags-manager/better-tags-manager.php on line 32

    Warning: main(lib/better_tags_manager_js.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/vhosts/gammablog.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/better-tags-manager/better-tags-manager.php on line 32

    Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘lib/better_tags_manager_js.php’ (include_path=’.:.:’) in /var/www/vhosts/gammablog.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/better-tags-manager/better-tags-manager.php on line 32

    • Keith Dsouza on May 27th, 2008 at 10:47 am #

      There seems to be some issue with virtual directory mapping, I will fix the error and release a new version shortly.

  14. Gamma on May 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am #

    Great, that it sounds like you can fix it. I can really use this plugin. Thanks.

  15. xiaomo on May 31st, 2008 at 4:47 am #

    thank you ~~good job

  16. DeeMX on June 13th, 2008 at 12:56 am #

    Really great job! Thanks for useful usage video.

  17. Rafal on June 22nd, 2008 at 6:14 am #

    1. Do not append input element outside of TD tag. This breaks table layout (maybe not in every browser but still…). So in “btm_add_hidden_field” function use jquery’s “append” instead of “after” method.
    2. In btm_columns_post_actions function, you are using something like this: “__(”)”. This translates to whole header of my .po translation file being inserted. I don’t know, maybe it’s server configuration thing but surely empty string shouldn’t be used here.

  18. 3dogs on July 10th, 2008 at 6:04 pm #

    Well, I’ve downloaded your Better Comments Manager and now your Better Tags Manager. Now, I just need a Better Categories Manager that works just like the tags manager. In the works?

  19. Gamma on July 12th, 2008 at 5:49 am #

    Any news on the issue with virtual directory mapping?

  20. Erum on August 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 am #

    Hi, I deactivated your plugin and even deleted it but the Manage posts page is still showing the tagging options from your plugin. How do I remove it completely?

  21. Paul on October 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm #

    Hi – cannot seem to delete tags – entered a single tag “test”, but it saving a blank field doesn’t work. Am I missing a step?

    thanks in advance

  22. Jeffro2pt0 on November 8th, 2008 at 3:17 am #

    I was hoping this plugin would help me sort out all of the blank tags from earlier versions of WordPress but it looks like this won’t fit the bill. Guess I’ll have to delete them by hand.

  23. whall on December 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pm #

    FYI – this sounds great, but I downloaded it, unzipped it into plugins directory and upon activation, received Internal Server Error 500. Any subsequent visits to plugin console page also gave error 500. I had to delete the plugin directory to get it back working.

    I’m running 2.6.5, PHP 4.4.9, let me know if you need more info. I’ll see if I can try it on some of my older version blogs.

  24. Vuthy on December 11th, 2008 at 3:01 am #

    Works great on my WordPress 2.6.3 site and made it super easy for me to go back and update multiple posts at once. Thanks for your work and for sharing it.

  25. WebDuD3 on September 1st, 2009 at 5:46 am #

    I’m having some problems with this plugin.
    I’m currently running WP 2.8.4 and this plugin activated.
    The problem is the following.
    The plugin doesn’t let me place tags for multiple posts because of an “insufficient privileges” bug. Since I’m the owner of the blog and the only user is “admin”, how come I don’t have privileges to put the tags?
    Can you pls fix this?

    P.S. Pls send me an email if you have fixed the bug. I’m really interested in using this plugin in the future.

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