No New Terms in Wordpress
Freely tagging posts is all well and good until you realise that most of your users will tag the same type of information inconsistently – and probably differently from each other too. If you have thousands of active posters then the sheer weight of numbers will help cancel out this effect, but otherwise you’re left with lots of tag synonyms each linking to a handful of posts.
Depending on your views on taxonomy and classifying information, this may or may not be an issue – but if it is, then this plugin is for you: Unless a user is an administrator or has the “Create Term” capability (created using the Role Manager plugin) then they can only tag their posts with existing tags.
- Download the “No New Terms” plugin (v0.1)
- Unzip and copy the single file to your Wordpress blog’s plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/).
- Activate it in the “Plugins” tab of the Admin section.
- This will now only let admins create new tags when adding (or editing) posts. To allow selected users to do the same, first download and install the Role Manager plugin, add a new capability called “Create Term” and then enable this per each non-admin user you want to be able to create new tags.
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Wordpress Wordpress tips, plugins and themes developed or designed by drakard.com No New Terms in Wordpress Ever wished that you could stop users from tagging posts with whatever first pops into their head? Use this plugin to limit them to the predefined tags that you have already added to Wordpress.