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.
Dec 9th at 1:25 am
it’s pretty awesome…..
Dec 9th at 1:31 am
This is excellent !
Dec 9th at 1:32 am
AWESOME!! GREAT WORK WORDPRESS!
Dec 9th at 1:43 am
cool!
Dec 9th at 1:52 am
this is great cant wait to use it
Dec 9th at 2:07 am
Awesome add! Just like Twitter and Facebook.
Dec 9th at 2:12 am
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!
Dec 9th at 2:34 am
Good thinking, well explained. Thank you!
Dec 9th at 2:38 am
a very useful feature, thanks WP team!
Dec 9th at 3:09 am
Is it me, or does this eerily resemble Twitter…?
Dec 9th at 3:12 am
Totally digging the “most frequently tagged” list that comes up automatically…
Thank you for the enhancements!
Dec 9th at 3:30 am
well thought out
Dec 9th at 3:30 am
best. waiting for an opensource microblogging tool from wp.
Dec 9th at 3:40 am
Another great enhancement/feature…Wordpress developers are awesome.
Dec 9th at 3:48 am
This is both cool and great
Dec 9th at 4:14 am
Thank you, we have that theme a long time and it’s fantastic!
Dec 9th at 4:38 am
cool!! can’t wait to use it!!
Dec 9th at 4:42 am
Awesome development. This is cool.
Dec 9th at 4:51 am
nice.. thanks for info
Dec 9th at 5:18 am
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!!!
Dec 9th at 5:59 am
Neat…I like it.
Dec 9th at 5:59 am
Nice work – more functionality is always appreciated
Dec 9th at 6:41 am
Does this theme automatically replace the old p2 theme I am using?
Dec 9th at 1:18 pm
Yes, these two updates are a part of P2 running on WordPress.com
Dec 9th at 6:48 am
This will make tagging P2 posts a breeze, thanks! Hoping one day that inserting media from the front page will be just as easy.
Dec 9th at 7:35 am
this is pretty interesting. guess I will use that soon…
thanks.
Dec 9th at 7:48 am
sounds great!
Dec 9th at 7:56 am
This is a very fascinating tool. Thanks, WP Team!
Dec 9th at 8:04 am
Pretty sweet.
Dec 9th at 8:21 am
Good work.
Dec 9th at 8:28 am
woooow
great
Dec 9th at 8:41 am
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?
Dec 9th at 1:20 pm
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.
Dec 9th at 10:47 am
This is outstandingly brilliant! GREEEAT!!!
Dec 9th at 11:43 am
Great! thank you!!!
Dec 9th at 1:21 pm
Very nice it makes using WordPress that much easier.
Dec 9th at 1:22 pm
Im gonna try it out!
Dec 9th at 2:09 pm
AWESOME!! Thanks for this!!
Dec 9th at 2:09 pm
wow! this means were in for great company of friends!
thanks!
Dec 9th at 2:22 pm
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.
Dec 9th at 2:52 pm
Yet another good addition to WordPress. Thanks!
Dec 9th at 3:33 pm
Thanks, i like
Dec 9th at 4:12 pm
Good stuff, thanks!
Dec 9th at 5:57 pm
I want to join the p2 members my name is Emmanuel ezeofor
Dec 9th at 8:34 pm
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.
Dec 9th at 6:03 pm
nice !! thanks
Dec 9th at 6:16 pm
Good!
Dec 9th at 9:19 pm
this is really cool.. cant wait to try it out..
Dec 9th at 9:23 pm
Awesome
Dec 9th at 10:33 pm
WOW!!
Dec 10th at 12:56 am
great stuff!
Dec 10th at 3:10 am
haha… nice (:
Dec 10th at 10:59 am
Wow. .thank’s its great..
Dec 10th at 1:34 pm
Very interesting feature. Thanks WordPress. I shall experiment it asap.
Dec 10th at 4:13 pm
I just love this!!! It’s sooo great!
Dec 10th at 4:15 pm
That’s great! Thanks WordPress just makes something good even bettter.
Dec 10th at 5:22 pm
Sounds interesting I might try that soon, thank you.
Dec 11th at 6:03 pm
bravoooo….very helpful thanks
Dec 11th at 6:46 pm
Sounds interesting
Dec 12th at 4:53 am
That is dope.
Dec 12th at 1:46 pm
was thinking about changing to P2
ill have a look
Dec 12th at 5:45 pm
I want to learn more and apply. It might be helpful for my blog. Thank you.
Dec 12th at 8:44 pm
As always, you guys rock.
Dec 13th at 6:19 am
thats great
Dec 13th at 12:15 pm
Excellent. great stuff, I’m sure I’ll use it!
Dec 13th at 4:56 pm
Good stuff. Thanks.
Dec 13th at 7:21 pm
I have been in a fog about tagging, this sheds some light. My linking knowledge could also be upgraded, come to think of it!
Dec 14th at 5:37 am
You may be interested in our new linking system: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/linking-sorting-paging/
Dec 13th at 7:28 pm
Thank You
Dec 13th at 10:38 pm
it’s cool…i like it.
Dec 14th at 4:09 am
will try
Dec 14th at 1:45 pm
nice^_^ thx
Dec 14th at 6:09 pm
thank you..
Dec 14th at 9:55 pm
very cool, thank you!
Dec 15th at 2:10 am
Loving the comments on here!!! Great stuff
Dec 15th at 5:54 am
Thank you!!
Dec 15th at 9:08 am
yessss tagging help !!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 15th at 1:13 pm
P2 its theme? or new wordpress function?
Dec 16th at 1:04 am
These two features are only available on the P2 theme, not all WordPress.com themes.
Dec 16th at 2:58 pm
very good thanks
Dec 16th at 9:48 pm
sweeeeeeeet!
Dec 17th at 4:37 pm
this is excellent
Dec 17th at 7:37 pm
Great!
Dec 18th at 12:48 am
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
Dec 18th at 12:13 pm
better!!!
Dec 18th at 2:15 pm
excellent!
Dec 18th at 3:25 pm
Nice.
Dec 19th at 4:52 pm
helpful one
Dec 19th at 6:56 pm
Sounds exciting, can’t wait to try it out.
Dec 19th at 11:16 pm
cool
Dec 19th at 11:30 pm
Dec 20th at 8:59 pm
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
Dec 21st at 1:31 am
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 ( http://en.support.wordpress.com/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.
Dec 21st at 2:40 pm
that is better idea