Categories (née Tags)

[obenland]

Review the use of tags, see ​https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2016/02/25/re-thinking-tags-in-the-plugin-directory/

[obenland]

@ipstenu mentioned an idea:

Curated categories: "Best of April", "Pick of the week"

[samuelsidler]

Fwiw, I wouldn't consider comment 2 as part of tags, but perhaps a separate view/filter/whatever that we'd have to build.

[samuelsidler]

As mentioned and discussed, we're ​moving from tags to categories.

For this ticket, we have a few things we'll need to do:

• Create the categories, in a way that's localizable.
• Output the categories on the plugin detail page (already done?).
• Allow plugin authors to add categories to their plugins in the plugin admin (maximum of three).
• As part of the migration script, map current tags to categories.

I think comment:2 (and the Featured "category") should be a separate taxonomy that doesn't display on the plugin detail page. Thoughts?

The other two proposed taxonomies will be completed in other tickets.

[dd32]

In 3225:

Plugin Directory: Rename Tags to Categories and add the extra taxonomies we plan on using.

See #1573

[dd32]

In 3226:

Plugin Directory: Add term translation.

See #1573

[dd32]

In 3228:

Plugin Directory: Update a missed taxonomy name and correct a typo.

See #1579, #1573

[obenland]

In 3322:

Plugin Directory: Update term name.

Per samuelsidler.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3323:

Plugin Directory: Disable unused taxonomy meta boxes.

For now only Plugin Cateogories are important, the other taxonomies will be
added at a later point in time.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3324:

Plugin Directory: Limit the amount of assignable categories to 3.

See #1573.

[obenland]

@dd32: I added a suggestion as to how to handle tag to category conversion on import: 1573.diff​.

Should we convert the category slugs to IDs in the map directly or continue with slugs and getting IDs?
Is that spot in the importer a good point to do the conversion or should it be done somewhere else?

[dd32]

@obenland currently the sync script uses the same importer.
I'm curious if you think we should be coverting tags on each import, or if we should instead just do it once as a one-time migration?

I'm kind of thinking the add plugin form should ask the submitter to choose the categories, and we should only assign categories automatically for existing plugins.

[obenland]

Replying to dd32:

I'm curious if you think we should be coverting tags on each import, or if we should instead just do it once as a one-time migration?

Not sure how much this would hold up each sync, but it should be enough to do it once. Should I just add the class and not hook it up for now?

I'm kind of thinking the add plugin form should ask the submitter to choose the categories, and we should only assign categories automatically for existing plugins.

That sounds reasonable, I'll add it to the upload shortcode.

[dd32]

Replying to obenland:

Replying to dd32:

I'm curious if you think we should be coverting tags on each import, or if we should instead just do it once as a one-time migration?

Not sure how much this would hold up each sync, but it should be enough to do it once. Should I just add the class and not hook it up for now?

It's not a performance issue to run it every time, it's more of that we don't want to be overriding their category selection in wp-admin every time they commit a change :)
Perhaps we should only run it if the post doesn't have any categories assigned?

[obenland]

Yes, let's do that

[obenland]

In 3328:

Plugin Directory: Import tags and map them to categories.

Maps existing tags, that are part of the top 1000 most used tags, to their new
categories. Mapping only occurs for up to three categories and only if there
are no categories set yet.

H/t samuelsidler for putting together the tag/category spreadsheet.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3335:

Plugin Directory: Let plugin authors select categories on upload.

Also refactors create_plugin_post() to me more of a direct wrapper of
wp_insert_post(). Front-end needs styles.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3337:

Plugin Directory: Update category styles in meta widget.

See #1573.

[obenland]

@samuelsidler @dd32: Can you think of more to do here?

Example: ​https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/category/media/

[obenland]

In 3340:

Plugin Directory: Update category slugs to match built-in terms.

See #1573.

[dd32]

Replying to obenland:

Can you think of more to do here?

Category pages should be sorted by Most Active Installs first I believe, in fact all archives should be (unless they've got another pre-selected order).

[samuelsidler]

Screenshot on iOS

[samuelsidler]

Spacing is weird on mobile (see screenshot). Can we change to text to a sentence instead?

Showing plugins in the "Media" category:

Something like that?

[obenland]

Replying to samuelsidler:

Spacing is weird on mobile (see screenshot). Can we change to text to a sentence instead?

Showing plugins in the "Media" category:

Something like that?

I find it a little wordy and I'm not sure how scalable it will be given the amount of taxonomies we're planning on using.
What about Category: Media to make it less redundant?

[obenland]

In 3342:

Plugin Directory: Order archives by install count.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3343:

Plugin Directory: Allow users to browse their favorite plugins.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3345:

Plugin Directory: Updated styles for upload form.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3346:

Plugin Directory: Second pass at upload form styles.

This time, let's be less intrusive on other styles.

See #1573, [3345].

[obenland]

In 3351:

Plugin Directory: Add a plural form for when there are more than one category.

See #1573.

[obenland]

In 3353:

Plugin Directory: Minor style tweaks.

Improves display of global search bar, local search bar, and categories.

See #1573, #1719.

[obenland]

In 3404:

Plugin Directory: Make missing section titles available for i18n.

See #1573.

[dd32]

In 3578:

Plugin Directory: Track plugin tags in a taxonomy.

See #1573

[dd32]

In 3579:

Plugin Directory: Hide the plugin tag UI for non-super-admins for now.

See #1573

[samuelsidler]

Milestone Plugin Directory v3 - M5 deleted