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Review sustainability tags used at WP Plugin directory #8

Open YellowlimeNL opened 12 months ago

YellowlimeNL commented 12 months ago

Mulitple tags are being used at WP Plugin directory covering the sustainability topic.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sustainable/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sustainability/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/eco/

etc etc

Idea is to provide guidelines for better overview.

Brought under our attention by @jeroenrotty. Thank you Jeroen!

jeroenrotty commented 12 months ago

Looks like there are 12,500 tags on .org and they are indexed. This could be improved not only for our team but also for others: https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fplugins%2Ftags

coffee2code commented 11 months ago

Unfortunately, the main issue with this is that no plugin tags are treated with any special significance, nor are they monitored, reserved, or restricted. Each plugin author defines the tags appropriate to their plugin (as they see fit) in the readme.txt file. The Plugin Directory limits their tags to the first five (to prevent excessive tagging). And I believe it prevents allowing a tag archive for tags used only once (or some other small value).

There is no guidance to plugin authors on tag usage, nor enforcement in place to ensure "proper" usage. So while having meaningful and properly attributed tags for plugins would be great, currently there's nothing in place to facilitate making that happen.

gusaus commented 5 months ago

Is this an active project? If yes, could the folks involved assign yourselves to this issue?