How to Tag Your WordPress Posts Automatically

| November 22, 2012 | 2 Comments

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Whenever you write a post you have to fill in many data among which one is “TAGS”. You know how boring and time consuming it is. So what to do? Is there anyway to do this automatically and save more time? Hm….Yes there is!! There is a plugin available that will auto-tag all your posts. The plugin’s name is Automatic Post Tagger (APT).It lets you to automatically tag your posts with pre-defined tags.This is a very useful plugin and saves a lot of time.Let’s see how it works.

Here is how it Works

First of all you will need to create a list of tags with related words for each of them.The plugin will then automatically add relevant tags to posts according to the keywords found in the title, content, and excerpt.For example the tag “cat” is added if you assign to it words “cats, kitty, meow” and they are found in a post by the plugin.
With APT you can set a maximum number of tags per post and bulk tag your existing posts. You can easily import or export your tags list as well.This plugin is a great solution for bloggers who want to save some time or run autoblogs.

How to configure

Install and activate Automatic Post Tagger plugin and you will see a new item under your Settings menu called Automatic Post Tagger. Check the default settings and once you are happy with your settings go ahead with adding tags .

ATP Plugin

You can add tag name and keywords from either the settings page, or you can add it from your posts write panel.




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  1. Thanks Mark, I Had Been Wondering if that’s possible because sometimes when making a new post we don’t have time, and this plugin will definitely save some time.

    Thanks.

  2. Mark says:

    You are right Jay.This plugin is the great time saver.

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