Automatic Thread Tagger for vB4.x
 

Automatic Thread Tagger
This is the vB4 conversation of the original by Phalynx (with permission)

Description
When a user submits a new thread this modification will automatically take keywords from the thread title and use these as tags. You can use Automatic Thread Tagger to propose the user AJAX tags for his new thread, or it assigns new tags after saving the new thread. It can add the translated thread prefix to the tags.
Additionally, you can tag existing threads via maintenance and also scheduled tasks.

This modification is a successor to the terminated Automatic Thread Tagger by MrEyes:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=179927

As an example, if a user submits a thread with a title of:
"Fish Food for Cats!"

The thread will be automatically tagged with:

- Fish
- Food
- Cats

If the user also submits an actual tag of "Fish" this will not be duplicated. Any rules you have setup for tagging will be respected.
If you choose to do so this product will also automatically tag threads created by incoming RSS feeds.

Demo
I cannot show you the process of creation, but here is a list of tags generated by Auto Thread Tagger:
http://www.insideearth.net/tags.php?langid=5
http://www.insidesupcom.de/tags.php?langid=1

Automatic Tagging of existing threads
You can tag existing threads via maintenance or scheduled task/cron. They will be created with a special flag so they can be easily identified and deleted. Manual assigned tags are not touched. Maintenance is also working if Automatic Tagging is disabled via settings. Great if you want to test some settings. Automatic Tagging will take the date of the thread creation and also the userid of the creator. This process can be automated by running a scheduled job once a night.

Please keep in mind that tags that were proposed via AJAX are not tagged as auto tagged and therefore cannot be identified as such (and therefore not deleted automatically). If you want to retain the auto tagged flag you should disable AJAX and enable the tagging after the thread has been saved. As an alternative way you can also disable this and let new threads be tagged in the night from the scheduled job.

Installation
1. Upload all files from "upload" to your server, take care of the directory structure
2. Import "product-auto_thread_tagger110.xml" as a product, overwrite if it's already installed
3. Check settings
4. Run maintenance / Auto Tag Threads to tag existing threads (needed if you want to use the cron)

After install, and by default the modification is disabled, this will allow you to play around with configuration before switching it on.

Why thread title and not thread text?
Parsing the thread text for tags is an extremely unlikely addition as this would require some fairly heavy processing to ensure quality of tags.

What are Stopwords?
Stopwords is the name given to words which are filtered out prior to processing of tags.
The user Hostboard on vBulletin.org posted some resources regardings this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=380

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Text are taken from the original thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201156

Thanks to Phalynx

excellent been waiting for a vb4 version of this!

installed thanks

Installed on my test site but the Ajax newthread autotag doesn't seem to be working?! but the cron set up worked fine when i ran it for the first time.

Settings set to "yes" are:

Enabled the complete auto tagger system, incl. maintenance?
Enabled the auto tagger for newthread?
Enabled the AJAX newthread?

Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: Seems to be a conflict with VBSEO is there any chance you could look into this since vbseo is a very popular package?

Thanks, Installed

tagged

Thanks

Installed on 4.04pl1 with thanks and testing ... :up:

Regards,
Doug

Edit: I can't seem to find this under my Maintenance tab in our AdminCP? Is it somewhere else?

4. Run maintenance / Auto Tag Threads to tag existing threads (needed if you want to use the cron)

Another question .... :)

We do have RSS feeds ...

The settings option says:

I can't seem to find anywhere here what I need to change where to have this work? :confused:

Thanks ...

Regards,
Doug

I am sorry for being such a newb... but can anyone explain what this tagging is and what it is good for? is it for spiders, etc for web searches? Just have no clue what this tagging is.. thanks.

i have a queastion

Does it work with vb 408

How do I merge or delete tags in mass ?

You currently have this modification tagged.

What I mean is this picked up the word SAN in all the football games and its all alone and large in the cloud, It seems like I was able to merge tags in the past but I forgot were to do it.

also it just picked up a phrase that I had not set the tags that were created were

• christmas
• so what does your cracker
• tree

The title was So what does your "Cracker Christmas Tree Look Like?

Also if I run the cron 500 at a time can it find my archives beyond the last 500 and do them over time or will it always look at the last 500 post ?

does this have a select all option so that we may delete tags instead of checking each box...

not that I have found

Would like to install this but is there any way to clear all my old tags all at once?

Anyone able to help with this?

Thanks .. :)

Regards,
Doug

I'm waiting for a fix on this

installed

Would love to install also, but will wait on a fix for the conflict with VBSEO...

Thanks,

same here.

Didn't uninstall for me 4.1 PL2

It is there, the modification is working fine thanks :)

I was excited to see somebody recoded this. But am now kinda bummed that the support seems to be lacking.

I have vBSEO installed as well...and I guess i'll hold off installing until that bug is resolved.

maybe if we temporarily disable vbSEO before running the auto-tagging cron ?

I've not tested this, but would like to know what the conflict really is... The other poster only said there was a conflict, but never said what it was. Could be an easy fix.

I agree, sometimes people complain about nothing in these threads....meanwhile its these simple things that prevent a lot of us from installing the mod in the first place.

I can't download the attach file

Installed and working

4.1 PL2 with vBSEO :cool:

Advise: Because of the way vBSEO works, I have decided NOT to use any of the AJAX option within this modification. Further, I also change the setting in vBulletin to only use the "less problematic" AJAX scripts (just to be sure).

AdminCP > General Settings > AJAX Features > Disable problematic features.

I have not tried it this modification with all AJAX features on and with the options within this modification.

If you're using the cron way of tagging )because of vbseo) wouldn't that produce a seriously load on your server when its creating tags if you run a very busy forum? due to processing hundreds of posts in that 24hr period?

I have been trying this on a clients sites for a few weeks and I just finally got around to checking the tags and many are not even words but basically what ever anyone posted in a thread title....

This may work on an forum where users create very nice thread titles but the tags it is creating on this particular site are just awful.. Great concept though but very hard to implement in a useful way. To really create decent tags the whole thread would have to be scanned and yes, that would be very resource intensive..

A simple"select all" feature in the tag editing section would be a nice addition too..

I have to uninstall for now but I will be following this. I notice that it seems only members on web related sites tend to create tags. Most clients sites that are not web related will just ignore the tags option just about every time..

Thanks much for your hard work..
Rich

This would be awesome if you incorporated search phrases bringing the user to the page into the tags..

i.e... Fuzzy SEO Booster meets Auto Thread Tagger.... Imagine how nice tags for exact phrases in vB would be.

work on 4.1.1 with vbseo and with no Disable AJAX Features. they are all active. the only option that i set to no is Enabled AJAX? because i don't understand what is doing

Using this, I love it...

Thanks for this. Please keep it up to date when needed :)

I'm not sure if I got this working correctly.
So I installed this on 4.1.1, enabled it in settings (enabled system, enabled, enabled ajax) also Turned on vb tagging. Then ran Auto Tag Threads maintenance, 45,000 threads later I went to see if it tagged any threads.
For some reason I can't see any tags, edit or add tags to a thread. I can however add tags to a new thread that I make, but the tag area doesn't autofill.
Am I missing something here? Are there more option that I need to enable???
I also have vbseo running if that matters.

rebuld counters and wait for it to update the data

You have to go to maintenance/update counters and scroll all the way down to Auto Tag Threads to get it to create new tags for the people asking. I couldn't find it either.

Does it take some time for the thread tags to be updated? Just installed on 4.1.1.

works great 4.1.1 & greek lang
thanks man

Excellent Mod! Thank You!

I have to write my review

This mod is a complete Crap

i installed it on my forum on my dedicated server

server loads went up to 7 & 9

editing thread is a joke it takes up to 120 seconds just to edit a thread

My rating 0/5

server loads returned to 0.3 - 0.49 - 0.52 the minute i uninstalled this modification

sorry but very poor coding dude