GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 311023
MovableType/WordPress entries can't have multiple entries
Last modified: 2010-03-06 08:26:13 UTC
Not a bug, per se, but a feature-lacking! Posting entries to MT/WP based weblogs. Under advanced options, only a dropdown list appears for category selection. This only allows one category to be selected.
I would like to confirm this. My proposal for a better solution would be to have clicking produce an unrolled list of categories, like is done now, but with checkboxes next to them allowing multiple selection rather than the simple dropdown available now. This is my personal #1 problem with Drivel, as I frequently use multiple categories to describe the content of my posts and how they should be handled.
A little note about tags :) Wordpress now has tags and some (many? no idea) users have converted their categories to tags. Dotclear and (AFAIK) Blogger use tags. Therefore, a simple entry box where the user can type a list of tags would be good. Category choice is not made obsolete by tags for everyone though. Some users will only use tags, others only categories, yet others will use both.
This has also been reported as Ubuntu bug 151475 and Debian bug 465805. Hopefully get a chance to work on this for 2.1.
OK, let's try that again: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/drivel/+bug/151475 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390519 (bugzilla being annoying and assuming it's knows best.)
OK, some news on this. MovableType has two types of list support: keywords and tags. The initial patch for MT tag support (bug 538410) used mt_keywords which don't show up in MT as part of the blog entry. mt_tags does and drivel 3.0.0 will now allow setting and updating a comma separated list of mt_tags for MT-compatible blog engines. WP appears to require that the tags are configured in WP first (but then I don't use WP much) but I still can't get WP to show up tags in the way that MT does (either using mt_keywords or mt_tags). If there's a way of supporting tags for MT and WP using the same calls, I'll do it for 3.0.0 - if it needs drivel MT support to be customised for WP, it's going to take a lot longer. (Note that 3.0.0 is now in a final bug fix state prior to release, there's no new functionality going into 3.0.0. The biggest problems in 3.0.0 are actually LJ.)
*** Bug 470354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm closing this bug, it just isn't something that I've got time to implement.