Mustansir Golawala

Lots of Tags

So my wp-category-manager plugin ran into a little bit of a problem recently. One of the installations (they shall remain nameless) using the plugin, had slightly more tags than I had ever expected there would be. Loading that many tags into a select box was definitely not going to be a feasible solution. Not only is it unusable (who is really going to go through that many tags in a drop down list?) but just the ajax load for the drop down was freezing up the browser.

The only way I know how to design a UI to deal with these many values to sift through, is to either paginate or provide search (preferably with autocompletion). Building a paginated drop down feels like a dumb idea, so when I get a chance I will look to update the WP Category Manager plugin with a search box and auto completion instead. I think it will be a nice usability improvement in the case where there are more than a few tags.

On a completely different note, I am no SEO wiz.. but if you have more than a few dozen tags.. you are probably doing it wrong….

The first picture on that thread put all the other images that follow it in context.

I have no words for the second image on that thread.

Take a few minutes to go through the images posted on that thread. If the pictures in the thread dont shake you, you will at least find them interesting.

So I was out on my morning jog earlier today and I ran into a snake. Not being much of a snake expert, I had no way of knowing if the snake was poisonous and so I probably should have run away from it, but curiosity got the better of me and so I didn’t. The snake, however, had different plans and started to slither away as I was waiting for my iPhone camera app to load. I did manage to get a shot of the tail end as it was leaving.

Anyway, does anyone know what kind of snake that is? I live in west LA, so that should narrow the list down a bit. Based on my location and a little google-fu it looks like that snake is likely a pacific gopher snake, however that is just my guess.

It sure is going to be hard to reset all the places that currently point to mustakes.com but I guess I can fix them over time. In the short term, I’m going to import the content from there and setup 301 redirects.

SEO? We don’t need no stinkin SEO.