Till last week I was linking the tags at the bottom of all my posts to Delicious. But now that Delicious is going to be shut down, I don’t want all my blogs to link to something that is not existent, so I decided to change the configuration of Windows Live Writer to link tags to my tags’ archive on my blog.
All you have to do is adding a new Tag Provider.
First you need to open the window to enter the new provider (down here is a slideshow with the steps)
Once in the “Create New Tag Provider” dialog you have to enter the correct template based on the structure of your blog:
- Find the url for the tag page in your own blog engine, for example in Subtext it is: http://codeclimber.net.nz/tags/aspnetmvc/default.aspx
- Then replace the tag with the placeholder {tag-encoded} and then paste this url inside the link in the HTML template field of the “Create Tag Provider” dialog as shown below.
In Subtext the HTML template is:
<a href="http://example.com/tags/{tag-encoded}/default.aspx" rel="tag">{tag}</a>
Or if you have Wordpress, the HTML template would be:
<a href="http://example.com/tag/{tag-encoded}/" rel="tag">{tag}</a>
Easy, isn’t it?
Now the difficult part will be to update all the old posts to move the tags from delicious to your own blog: if you have not many posts you could also do it manually, otherwise you would need to write a small app to do the trick. Let’s see it this snowy Christmas holidays will allow me to write a quick tool to do the automatic update.
