Hi,
Currently to find all the entries that have a certain Tag attached to them you need to use the Search functionality and to have nice URLs you need to add Rewrite rules as described here:
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/2006/06/everybody_loves_tags.html
I would like to take a different approach and consider the Tag entries not as a search result but as an Archive Entry Listing with the possibility to add an Archive Mapping of type "Tag".
What do you think? Is that possible somehow eventually with changing the code?
I'm using dynamic publishing.
Thanks.
You actually don't need to use search functionality for that. You can create an index template of MTEntries tag="certain tag"; call it indexcertaintag.html,and link to that.
Ok, but this means I need to create 1000 index templates if I have 1000 tags (one for each)?
Typically some tags are more useful than others, hence tag clouds based on tag rank. Rebuilding thousands of archives would be no fun, either.
Not possible. The tagging system in MT is tied to search. This is just the way tags work. I don't just mean for MT, but as a concept.
what about custom fields instead of tags? is this possible?