Timeline for What to do with url-rewriting tag
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 10:57 | comment | added | gmazzap |
You are right, my bad, if user type "add-rewri", rewrite api doesn't appear, it appear if user start typing "re..", "url r..", "url.." (once I want to make url-rewrite a synonym to rewrite-api as said in Q). This is enough for me. It's an opinion, if I was sure it's the right opinion I would not posted a question here. What I believe is silly is to create tags with the only aim to make the synonyms to other tags. Following this rule we should create synonyms for all existing tags that users maybe can type in different ways.
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 10:09 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy |
Hit "Ask a question" on the WPSE, and see what happens when you type "over" in the tags list. As I write this, you'll see "pluggable" appear because it's a synonym of "overridable-functions". As you can see, it's running a like '%word%' type of query. If an end-user starts typing "add-rewrite-rule" it should similarly yield "rewrite-api"; this can only be done by making the tags synonyms. If you still think the idea is silly and useless, I'm afraid I've no help to offer. (Except to highlight that unicorns don't exist any more than hapless end-users who know what to type in advance.)
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 9:15 | comment | added | gmazzap |
I have no experience on support forums, but I know new and low rep users can't create new tags and if they have enough rep., they should know what rewrite api is. So, when a new user try to add add-rewr... tags, rewrite-api is the only suggestion shown if functions named tags doesn't exist. IMHO this is a way to force new users to use proper tags. There 2 reasons why I said is wrong to use function names as tags, the 1st is explained in my question, the 2nd is a comment by @toscho that found me completely agree: "We should try to focus on the concept, not on function names"
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 9:01 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | And, no, in my own experience from back when I was running my private support forum, users don't attach tags like rewrite-api when they enter tags named after functions. They stick to entering a task named after the function they're trying to deal with from lack of knowing better. If anything, they usually have absolutely no idea that there's a more general tag that fits their question better. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 8:59 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | Wrong concept or not, the add-rewrite-rule and a whole bunch of others exist because it's the name of a WP function that users entered while looking for answers related to whatever function they're having problems with. Ergo, having the relevant tag around and making it a synonym of a broader group is probably good idea: the tag will then pop up when the end-user enters it, and it'll get translated automatically to the synonym. No? | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 8:48 | comment | added | gmazzap |
I don't understand the need to create some tags and then make them synonyms for something. Because to tag answers using function names is a wrong concept and, I think, if users can attach tags named like function names can also attach rewrite-api.
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 0:57 | history | answered | Denis de Bernardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |