Better Tagging with P2
When we originally released P2 our mission was to create an awesome feature-packed group blog theme. We have stayed true to that mission with new improvements to P2 functionality that will make collaborating with others much easier.
P2 now sports a site member autocomplete tool that takes the guesswork out of tagging people in your posts. P2 will also now display the most popular tags for a blog as well as the number of times a tag has been used. These new features allow you to better identify and organize your posts.
Site Member Autocomplete
When you write posts it is now possible to bring up a list of members posting on your blog. From the front page of P2, type the @ character with part of a username and the a list of username suggestions will appear based on username and display name. You can choose the correct member name to insert and the name should be added to your post content. After tagging a member in your post, the post will be filed under a special URL (for example: http://p2demo.wordpress.com/mentions/justin/).
Tagging Improvements
We have also made some great improvements to the tag-it box. The tags that appear when you begin typing will now be ordered by popularity. P2 will also display the number of times a tag has been used. This will allow you to better decide what tags to use. To use the feature just begin typing some characters and a list of available tags should display.
Using P2
Just like other themes, you can find P2 under Appearance > Themes on your dashboard. Those who are into the self-hosted version of WordPress can keep an eye out for the updated version of P2 in the coming weeks.
- December 9, 2010
- New Features, Themes
it’s pretty awesome…..
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This is excellent !
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AWESOME!! GREAT WORK WORDPRESS!
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cool!
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this is great cant wait to use it
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Awesome add! Just like Twitter and Facebook.
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Interesting – and quite ingenious. Any sort of feature with Auto-Complete involved nearly always serves to make the job of blogging that much easier.
Another great job WordPress!
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Good thinking, well explained. Thank you!
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a very useful feature, thanks WP team!
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Is it me, or does this eerily resemble Twitter…?
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Totally digging the “most frequently tagged” list that comes up automatically…
Thank you for the enhancements! 🙂
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well thought out
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best. waiting for an opensource microblogging tool from wp. 🙂
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Another great enhancement/feature…Wordpress developers are awesome.
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This is both cool and great 🙂
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Thank you, we have that theme a long time and it’s fantastic!
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cool!! can’t wait to use it!!
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Awesome development. This is cool.
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nice.. thanks for info
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I love this:
Organizing is the one thing I would like to do better in 2011. I can’t wait to learn more in WordCamp Indonesia next month! Thank you guys!!!
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Neat…I like it.
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Nice work – more functionality is always appreciated
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Does this theme automatically replace the old p2 theme I am using?
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Yes, these two updates are a part of P2 running on WordPress.com
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This will make tagging P2 posts a breeze, thanks! Hoping one day that inserting media from the front page will be just as easy.
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this is pretty interesting. guess I will use that soon…
thanks.
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sounds great!
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This is a very fascinating tool. Thanks, WP Team!
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Pretty sweet.
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Good work.
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woooow
great
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Very nice, awesome to see improvements with this great theme. Are the Tagging Improvements part of the 1.1.9 release to the Theme directory on WP.org? Also, it seems with 1.1.9 that dashes are automatically converted into bullets?
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The release including these tagging improvements has not yet been released. Key an eye out for an update in the next week or so.
Dashes and asterisks will be converted to bullets on P2s.
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This is outstandingly brilliant! GREEEAT!!!
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Great! thank you!!!
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Very nice it makes using WordPress that much easier.
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Im gonna try it out!
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AWESOME!! Thanks for this!!
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wow! this means were in for great company of friends!
thanks!
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I always appreciate your constant upgrading of WordPress. It’s the best blogging software available today. Thank you so much for your outstanding work and absolute dedication to its users.
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Yet another good addition to WordPress. Thanks!
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Thanks, i like
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Good stuff, thanks!
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I want to join the p2 members my name is Emmanuel ezeofor
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If I am understanding correctly: You will show up in a members list for a specific P2 if you are a author on that blog (if you have posted more then one post). Each individual site/P2 has its own members list and they are not tied together.
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nice !! thanks
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Good!
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this is really cool.. cant wait to try it out.. 🙂
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Awesome
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WOW!!
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great stuff!
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haha… nice (:
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Wow. .thank’s its great..
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Very interesting feature. Thanks WordPress. I shall experiment it asap.
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I just love this!!! It’s sooo great!
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That’s great! Thanks WordPress just makes something good even bettter.
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Sounds interesting I might try that soon, thank you.
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bravoooo….very helpful thanks
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Sounds interesting
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That is dope.
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was thinking about changing to P2
ill have a look
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I want to learn more and apply. It might be helpful for my blog. Thank you.
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As always, you guys rock.
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thats great
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Excellent. great stuff, I’m sure I’ll use it!
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Good stuff. Thanks.
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I have been in a fog about tagging, this sheds some light. My linking knowledge could also be upgraded, come to think of it!
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You may be interested in our new linking system: https://wordpress.com/blog/2010/11/19/linking-sorting-paging/
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Thank You 😀
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it’s cool…i like it.
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will try
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nice^_^ thx
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thank you..
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very cool, thank you!
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Loving the comments on here!!! Great stuff 🙂
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Thank you!!
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yessss tagging help !!!!!!!!!!!
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P2 its theme? or new wordpress function?
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These two features are only available on the P2 theme, not all WordPress.com themes.
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very good thanks
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sweeeeeeeet! 🙂
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this is excellent
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Great!
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Now isn’t that just great P2 is one of my favorite themes on discussion based sites i particularly use P2 there should be an option to enable/disable tag count shown in posts itself after the title
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better!!!
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excellent!
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Nice.
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helpful one
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Sounds exciting, can’t wait to try it out.
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cool
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🙂
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quite interesting but it’s too narrow for pics 😦
I’ll wait for similar engine update (tag counter) for my current theme as it’s good idea
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Thanks for the feedback. Not many other themes support the front end posting or collaboration abilities of P2 so thats why we chose to create these features here. If the theme is too narrow or there is something you want to change about it the Custom CSS upgrade ( https://wordpress.com/support/custom-css/ ) can allow you to correct that. Otherwise, the posting editor in the WordPress dashboard also shows you popular tags in a different format.
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that is better idea 😀
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