Just an FYI.... for people that don't know it... a + in a URL is short hand for the code %20.
And %20 in a URL in the encoding of a space. (Since you can't put a space in a URL... you have to do something called URL encoding... which looks like %XX where the X's are hexadecimal digits... i.e., 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F.) And yes... WordPress is messing up our tags! (Although I have no idea why it is doing it ATM.) -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:13 AM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vloggers - > > When tagging posts in wordpress with a two-word tag (lets say the tag > is "tag name") ... wordpress replaces the space with a dash (-) > resulting in "tag-name". > > However, technorati states that spaces should be replaced with a plus > (+) and is thus expecting "tag+name". It sees "tag-name" as an > entirely different thing, and returns different results for each. > (see: http://support.technorati.com/support/siteguide/tags ) > > The Microformats folks (microformats.org) also seem to favor the plus > (+) to represent spaces as well: > http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag#Encoding_issues > > But then later they do kinda say "well there are a bunch of ways it > could be done - which is better"? > http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag-faq#Multi-word_tags > > Meanwhile, wordpress doesn't even seem to allow an author to use a > plus (+) - as if you do that it just concatenates the two words into > one (ala "tagname"). > > Is it me or Wordpress working against us here; defying convention at > technorati and specification of microformats? Doesn't this make > wordpress rather Technorati unfriendly? In order to find wordpress > posts tagged "tag name" at technorati, I cant search for "tag name". > I have to search for "tag-name" ... because wordpress uses dash (-) > for spaces andtechnorati expects a plus (+) for spaces. > > ... what gives? Wasn't this all hashed out about a decade ago? :P > > Am I completely missing it, or is this worth bringing up to the > wordpress folks? > > - Dave > > -- > http://www.DavidMeade.com
