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Tag Format Converter

ReplyToolsJune 4th, 2009

I wrote this WordPress plugin to help me when making submissions to social bookmarking sites. I hated having to manually rewrite the tag formats because certain sites insist on using silly rules like spaces with double quotes. Boo-erns to them.

Anyways, figured somebody else may find it useful too!

Let me know if you have any suggestions for how to improve this tool.

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Tag Format Converter

Usage:

  1. Type or paste your comma-separated tags into the first field. Use spaces between multi-word tags, but NO SPACES on either side of the commas.
  2. Click Generate!
  3. You can then copy any of the result tags to use whenever a site requires odd formats.

Comma-separated (ex: tag 1,tag 2,tag 3)

Hyphen

Underscore

Double quotes

Slash

Here’s a spreadsheet which does the same thing >  Tag Formatter Spreadsheet

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6 Responses to “Tag Format Converter”

  • Jimmy Scales
    June 5, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    Nice! I was wondering if something like this was available. I can’t udnerstand why some of those sites ask for such ridiculous tag formats. Who the F types normally using spaces and double quotes around different phrases?

  • B.L
    June 6, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Why can’t the commas have spaces around them?

    • Kane
      June 7, 2009 at 7:35 am

      Hey B.L,

      It’s just because that’s how I wrote my script. It made it easier for me to parse the string and convert to the different formats. Sorry! Maybe v 2.0 will be more robust ;)

  • Onexwountee
    September 16, 2009 at 7:13 am

    Cool, I really find this tool useful! You rock Kane.

  • Tag Generator says:
    June 4, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    [...] Slashes – tag 1/tag 2/tag 3 I found it frustrating trying to manually rewrite my comma-separated list into these different formats for every site, so I wrote this WordPress plugin form that auto generates the different tag formats. Hopefully someone will find it useful! Tag Generator | Internet Marketing Fun [...]

  • I’m not a fan of SocialBot | Internet Marketing Fun says:
    June 24, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    [...] After I made a successful submission to Delicious, I manually loaded up the site in FireFox and checked to see what my submitted page looked like.  To my utter disgust the tags were all fuxored.  I had entered comma-separated tags in SocialBot, but apparently multiple-word tags aren’t possible, because all of my multiple-word tags in Delicious were broken up into single words.  (if you’re familar with my posts you may remember that I’m sort of a tag-Nazi) [...]

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