Support for a "keywords" field

[steph-tara]

In addition to "excerpt", add a "keywords" field for each post, which can be used to store post meta-data.

Keywords are just one kind of post meta field. The post meta function that wordpress offers can accomodate more than just one kind of post meta field. You can use a new meta item called Keywords after creating it.

If this answer satisfies your requirements, please close this bug.

I've found a workaround. The problem with it is that to have "nice" keywords support, I have had to edit edit-post.php and post.php.

The current interface for adding meta information is a bit painful if you're going to be adding the same bits of meta to each post. (Select the correct field name, enter info, submit, repeat.)

My suggestion is to add a "keywords" field proper to the admin interface, even if it means the keywords are stored as meta.

This can and should be done via a plugin. See attached file post_keywords.php.

edited on: 06-22-04 18:13

I came here through the recent discussion in the wp-hackers mailing list (web output, I am not yet a member). One of the advantages that MT has over WP when it comes to keywords is that it supports them at the XMLRPC level. Do you have any ideas how it would be possible to fix such a thing?

In more details, MT extends the metaWeblog API to support a mt_keywords field when editing and creating posts.

Perhaps we could support the MT XML-RPC call for grins and just stick it in a custom field, but we're not going to add a keywords field outright, it's kinda silly.