There seems to be a desire among some wordpress folks to NOT live up to the microformats specification on how to present multi-word tags.
Without this fix, wordpress will be actively excluding its users from being accurately indexed at technorati and other search engines/aggregators that honor the standards that have been in place for quite a while now. If anyone else has been frustrated by not getting indexed correctly at technorati, or believes wordpress should comply with the microformats specification, I encourage you to sign up for a trac account and leave a comments that encourages this to be fixed. http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5964 - Dave On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:53 PM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah I'd responded before I read your notice ... > > If anyone can state it better than I can feel free to create an > account there and add a comment. > > > http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5964 > > - Dave > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a comment on the issue. > > > > ATM, I don't have time to create an account there (so I can > > comment)... so... you might want to tell the person there > > that...................... > > > > The WordPress internal slug is relevant to the rel-tag Microformat > > because the internal slug appear in the URL used for the tag page. > > > > For example, with the URL... http://example.com/tag/internet-tv ... > > the internal slug name is "internet-tv"... BUT... the rel-tag > > Microformat (and thus Technorati) will take "internet-tv" to be the > > tag too! > > > > Which is the problem. The URL used for the tag page should be... > > http://example.com/tag/internet+tv or > > http://example.com/tag/internet%20tv for it to work properly. > > > > -- > > > > 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 10:38 AM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ok I submitted a bug report. > > > > > > Anyone interested in the issue can see it here: > > > http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5964#preview > > > > > > and you can subscribe to updates to the ticket via the following feed: > > > http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5964?format=rss > > > > > > - Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:33 PM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Andreas and Charles ... > > > > > > > > I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy before submitting it to > > > > wordpress. I'll send in a bug report to them and see what they say. > > > > > > > > - Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! 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