442 Comments

• miscblogger says:

  10/01/2006 at 04:41

  thank you so much for this plug in! this will really help a bundle!
• Oscar says:

  10/01/2006 at 07:38

  Sorry my English.
  Error:
  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/goofree/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autometa.php on line
  169

  Thanks
• miko67 says:

  10/01/2006 at 08:53

  Hi Rich

  Loving your plugin… but can’t get it to work yet.

  Got the “invalid argument for foreach..” problem on the 04.b on the wp2.0.

  Problem disapeared again after installing 0.5a, but after editing a post I didn’t get any meta.

  I hope you decide to upgrade your wp to 2.0… then I bet we would get a solution that works pretty soon

  Crossing my fingers here..

  /miko67
• Jad madi says:

  10/01/2006 at 21:09

  It doesn’t seems to work with wordpress 2.0
• AAwoken says:

  11/01/2006 at 04:02

  I ma getting the following error, quite suddenly I might add. It was working then this:

  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/particle/public_html/wp-content/plugins/autometa.php on line 169

  I am running Wordpress 2.0

  Any ideas?
• Rich says:

  11/01/2006 at 04:09

  Wow – LOADS of WP 2.0 interest! As you’ll see here, I’m upgrading to 2.0 tonight, so compatibility updates will follow.
• Rich says:

  11/01/2006 at 06:47

  The Good News: I’ve now upgraded to WordPress 2.0 and I’m happy to report that AutoMeta version 0.5a is working perfectly with it!

  The Bad News: Wordpress 2.0 has a bug which is what’s been affecting everyone

  The Fix: If you can’t wait for 2.0.1, the fix is VERY simple – you just need to remove “[0]” from line 475 of wp-includes/functions.php.
• Coffee says:

  11/01/2006 at 17:20

  Hi Rich

  You are amazing – one little [0] gone and everything seems to work. At least I’m getting some keywords now.

  One problem though:
  (We are on WP2.0 with autometa version 0.5a and removed [0] from line 475 in wp-incudes/functions.php)

  I only get 7 (seven) keywords out of a lengthy article that ought to provide me with a lot more keywords.

  I changed the autometa.php in the plugin editor like this:

  $autometa_threshold=1;
  …
  $autometa_maxWords=20;

  end edited 5 (five) posts.

  Still just 7 keywords…

  What seems to be the problem?

  I have analyzed each article and have more than one keyword in each article that is used more than the 7 (seven) but still they don’t get counted.

  It’s like the plugin only reads to a certain length…
• Rich says:

  11/01/2006 at 17:34

  Hi Coffee – that’s an “easy” one to answer. The threshold is a score threshold, not a number of words to match. All words that score above the threshold value value will be returned. If there are n words that score above the threshold, then the highest of these are skimmed off the top and returned (using $autometa_maxWords).

  So, if you want 7 words, try:
  $autometa_threshold=0.1
  $autometa_maxWords=7;

  At least; that’s how it should work; so let me know if it doesn’t!
• Coffee says:

  11/01/2006 at 21:23

  Hi Rich
  Your prompt assistance is truly appriciated.
  I have been fidling with autometa 0.5a now, and it appears to do what I want it to.
  One detail keeps bugging me though: My blog is about coffee, I use the word a lot (usually no. one or two highest word count – common words aside), and yet the word coffee never made it to the autometa keyword section. Is that the way it is supposed to work?
  (my website is http://www.coffeecoffee.be)
• Oscar says:

  12/01/2006 at 05:02

  It does not indicate anything leaves incomplete. As sera the reason?

  Thanks
  Oscar
• bluemint says:

  14/01/2006 at 13:07

  Nice plugin, rich!

  I hacked the code such that the hidden div is visible instead of hidden. This way I can see the “links”, edit them if necessary while my readers get to click on them to find related blogs by searching in Technorati.

  But as of version 0.5a, the plugin inserts the div even when the page in concern has no autometa. Would you consider changing the codes such that if there’s no autometa the plugin doesn’t insert the div at all please? Thanks.

  (off topic) Btw the “bookmark on del.icio.us” link doesn’t work. I believe the correct format should be “http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.blablabla…”
• c says:

  14/01/2006 at 22:17

  Ah, excellent. It’s working a treat now that I’ve edited functions.php. Thanks!

  One niggling detail: Technorati seems to prefer that links for multi-word tags use a + instead of %20 between words — at least, when one searches for a multi-word tag that isn’t found, the suggested format for the tag’s link is: <a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/tag+with+spaces” rel=”tag”>tag with spaces</a>. It doesn’t really seem to matter — %2B, + and %20 appear to be parsed the same by technorati — but it might be nice if Autometa treated a + the same as a – when generating keywords.
• plug Fakyr.com Ero and Fun Pics Blog plug says:

  15/01/2006 at 10:44

  [...] Plugin Name: AutoMeta Plugin Version: 0.5a Plugin URI: http://boakes.org/autometa?v=0.5a Author URI: http://boakes.org Plugin Description: Automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. Plugin Author: Rich Boakes Plugin License: GPL plug (Visit this plug sites) [...]
• Savvy Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for Wordpress 2.0 : SavvySolo Small Business Blog says:

  16/01/2006 at 15:36

  [...] 7. Add meta keyword tags and Technorati tags to your posts automatically – although it’s questionable whether or not meta keywords are still valuable when it comes to SEO, ultimately, they can’t hurt. As far as Technorati tags, they have little impact on SEO, but they can help increase your traffic directly from Technorati, so it’s a good idea to use them.Rick Boakes created the Autometa plugin that will add both tags to your posts automatically. [...]
• dave says:

  16/01/2006 at 19:55

  I would suggest that the plugin can also allow us to enter “description” for the meta tag. For the time being, we can only add “keywords”. How about “description”? It would benefit publisher if each post have their own description as well.

  Btw, thanks 4 d plugin.
• ExXodUs says:

  22/01/2006 at 10:00

  This is the Empty Word List for french :

  $autometa_common = array( “à”,”allô”,”aucuns”,”auriez”,”auxdits”,”aviez”,”ayons”,”bof”,”çà”,”certaines”,”chez”,”comment”,”da”,”desquels”,”deviez”,”devras”,”doit”,”dues”,”dût”,”es”,”êtes”,”eurêka”,”excepté”,”fouchtra”,”fûmes”,”ho”,”hurrah”,”laquelle”,”leur”,”mazette”,”mâtin”,”ne”,”nulle”,”or”,”outre”,”pas”,”plein”,”pourraient”,”pourvu”,”pouviez”,”puis”,”pussent”,”que”,”quoi”,”saperlipopette”,”serait”,”sien”,”sommes”,”ta”,”telles”,”touchant”,”une”,”veuillez”,”voilà”,”voudrez”,”voulante”,”voulue”,”vôtre”,”afin”,”alors”,”auquel”,”aurions”,”auxquelles”,”avions”,”aïe”,”boum”,”car”,”certains”,”chic”,”concernant”,”dans”,”devaient”,”devions”,”devrez”,”doive”,”duquel”,”eh”,”et”,”étiez”,”eus”,”eûmes”,”furent”,”fût”,”holà”,”hé”,”le”,”leurs”,”me”,”miséricorde”,”ni”,”nulles”,”ôté”,”palsambleu”,”patatras”,”plouf”,”pourrais”,”pouvaient”,”pouvions”,”puisque”,”put”,”quel”,”quoique”,”sapristi”,”seras”,”sienne”,”son”,”tandis”,”tels”,”tous”,”unième”,”veuillons”,”vos”,”voudriez”,”voulantes”,”voulues”,”vôtres”,”ah”,”apr.”,”aura”,”aurons”,”auxquels”,”avoir”,”bah”,”bravissimo”,”ce”,”ces”,”chiche”,”contre”,”de”,”devais”,”devoir”,”devriez”,”doivent”,”durant”,”elle”,”étaient”,”étions”,”eusse”,”eût”,”fus”,”fûtes”,”hop”,”il”,”ledit”,”lorsque”,”merci”,”moi”,”nonobstant”,”nuls”,”ou”,”pan”,”pechère”,”plus”,”pourrait”,”pouvais”,”pouvoir”,”puisse”,”pécaïre”,”quelle”,”rataplan”,”sauf”,”serez”,”siennes”,”sont”,”tant”,”tes”,”tout”,”unièmes”,”veulent”,”votre”,”voudrions”,”voulants”,”voulurent”,”zut”,”ai”,”as”,”aurai”,”auront”,”avaient”,”avons”,”basta”,”bravo”,”ceci”,”cet”,”chouette”,”corbleu”,”debout”,”devait”,”devons”,”devrions”,”doives”,”durent”,”elles”,”étais”,”être”,”eussent”,”eûtes”,”fusse”,”grâce”,”hormis”,”ils”,”lequel”,”lui”,”merde”,”moins”,”nos”,”ô”,”où”,”par”,”pendant”,”plusieurs”,”pourras”,”pouvait”,”pouvons”,”puissent”,”pût”,”quelles”,”revoici”,”se”,”seriez”,”siens”,”sous”,”taratata”,”tien”,”toute”,”v’lan”,”veut”,”voudra”,”voudrons”,”voulez”,”voulus”,”aie”,”attendu”,”auraient”,”autant”,”avais”,”ayant”,”beaucoup”,”ç’a”,”cela”,”cette”,”chut”,”coucou”,”depuis”,”devant”,”devra”,”devrons”,”donc”,”dus”,”en”,”était”,”eu”,”eusses”,”évohé”,”fussent”,”ha”,”hors”,”jarnicoton”,”les”,”là”,”mes”,”mon”,”notre”,”oh”,”ouais”,”parbleu”,”peu”,”pouah”,”pourrez”,”pouvant”,”psitt”,”puisses”,”qq.”,”quelqu’un”,”revoilà”,”selon”,”serions”,”sinon”,”soyez”,”tayaut”,”tienne”,”toutes”,”va”,”veux”,”voudrai”,”voudront”,”vouliez”,”voulussent”,”aient”,”au”,”aurais”,”autre”,”avait”,”ayante”,”bernique”,”ç’aura”,”celle”,”ceux”,”ciao”,”couic”,”des”,”devante”,”devrai”,”devront”,”dont”,”dussent”,”encontre”,”étant”,”eue”,”eussiez”,”évoé”,”fusses”,”hein”,”hou”,”je”,”lesdites”,”ma”,”mien”,”morbleu”,”nôtre”,”ohé”,”ouf”,”parce”,”peuchère”,”pour”,”pourriez”,”pouvante”,”pst”,”puissiez”,”qqch.”,”quelqu’une”,”rien”,”sera”,”serons”,”soi”,”soyons”,”taïaut”,”tiennes”,”tu”,”vers”,”via”,”voudraient”,”voulaient”,”voulions”,”voulut”,”aies”,”aucun”,”aurait”,”autres”,”avant”,”ayantes”,”bien”,”ç’aurait”,”celles”,”chacun”,”clic”,”crac”,”desdites”,”devantes”,”devraient”,”dia”,”du”,”dut”,”endéans”,”étante”,”eues”,”eussions”,”fi”,”fussiez”,”hem”,”hourra”,”jusque”,”lesdits”,”made”,”mienne”,”motus”,”nôtres”,”olé”,”ouille”,”pardi”,”peut”,”pourquoi”,”pourrions”,”pouvantes”,”pu”,”puissions”,”qqn”,”quels”,”sa”,”serai”,”seront”,”soient”,”stop”,”te”,”tiens”,”tudieu”,”veuille”,”vivement”,”voudrais”,”voulais”,”vouloir”,”voulût”,”ait”,”aucune”,”auras”,”aux”,”avec”,”ayants”,”bigre”,”ç’avait”,”celui”,”chacune”,”clac”,”cric”,”desdits”,”devants”,”devrais”,”diantre”,”dudit”,”dès”,”entre”,”étantes”,”euh”,”eut”,”fichtre”,”fussions”,”hep”,”hue”,”la”,”lesquelles”,”mais”,”miennes”,”moyennant”,”nous”,”on”,”oust”,”pardieu”,”peuvent”,”pourra”,”pourrons”,”pouvants”,”pue”,”purent”,”quand”,”qui”,”sacristi”,”seraient”,”ses”,”sois”,”suis”,”tel”,”toi”,”turlututu”,”veuillent”,”vlan”,”voudrait”,”voulait”,”voulons”,”vous”,”al.”,”aucunes”,”aurez”,”auxdites”,”avez”,”ayez”,”bis”,”ça”,”cependant”,”chaque”,”comme”,”crénom”,”desquelles”,”devez”,”devrait”,”dois”,”due”,”dû”,”envers”,”étants”,”eurent”,”eux”,”fors”,”fut”,”heu”,”hum”,”ladite”,”lesquels”,”malgré”,”miens”,”na”,”nul”,”ont”,”ouste”,”parmi”,”peux”,”pourrai”,”pourront”,”pouvez”,”pues”,”pus”,”quant”,”quiconque”,”sans”,”serais”,”si”,”soit”,”sur”,”telle”,”ton”,”un”,”veuilles”,”voici”,”voudras”,”voulant”,”voulu”,”vu”);
• Terry says:

  24/01/2006 at 02:33

  Hi,

  I’ve installed the plugin and for some reason the keywords are not showing up in the area where they should. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Can anyone help me?
• necktieguy says:

  24/01/2006 at 02:48

  Nevermind, I read one of the previous posts and removed the [0] from functions.php and it’s working great now!

  Thanks for the plugin!
• David says:

  27/01/2006 at 17:21

  So, I’m having the most bizarre problem: The autometa plugin is placing the tags in the posts just fine, but Technorati isn’t indexing the tags for some reason. I’ve searched and not found anything, I’ve also submitted multiple trouble tickets with Technorati and no response, so I’m hoping someone can shed some light on things here. I use the default theme, completely unmodified minus the plugins I’m using. Pages validate as XHTML 1.0 transitional, and if I manually enter tag links in the body of my posts, they seem to get indexed by Technorati. However, there are two things I’m doing differently than the plugin, as far as I can tell, when I put the links in the body of the post: 1)I’m not using CSS to style them as hidden, and 2)I’m putting them in the body of the post, whereas the plugin puts them after the body of the post. I’m not sure if either of these things may be causing my problem, but I’m completely stumped. Can anyone suggest anything I need to look at, or read that might help me get this working? In case you’re not pulling it from above, the site is http://blog.theburrowfamily.net for anyone nice enough to look it up for me.

  Thanks in advance!
• gobbledygook » Blog Archive » Updates on my blog says:

  29/01/2006 at 11:32

  [...] Lately I’ve been tweaking my blog with some different plugins. I’ve installed the FAlbum plugin that makes it possible to display random pictures from my Flickr account. I have also added my linkroll from del.icio.us (you don’t need a plugin for that, only two lines of JS code ), and I have installed the AutoMeta plugin that automatically generates Technorati tags for me [...]
• smdani says:

  30/01/2006 at 14:18

  Hi,
  Autometa doesnt work on my Wordpress 2.0 installation.
  I activate the plugin and after saving post changes I see this a list of errors like this:

  WordPress database error: [Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list]
  SELECT MATCH(post_content, post_title) against (’este’) as score FROM wp_posts where id=41;

  any help?
• Rich says:

  30/01/2006 at 19:45

  smdani: the 1st thing to check is that autometa has been configured properly. if you go into the wordpress admin screen and open the AutoMeta tab (which is under the Plugins tab) does it tell you that AutoMeta is “ready for use”?
• Ben says:

  01/02/2006 at 19:24

  Where are the meta tags being written. I see it on the “write” page of wordpress and it is populated with fields but I do not see it when I look at the source code for the post after publishing. I have already created the index as well from wordpress.

  any ideas?
• hans says:

  01/02/2006 at 23:11

  After ugrading from wp 2.0 to 2.0.1 your plugin is failing. Same error as smdani. Is this a common problem?

  Regards,

  Hans
• . » Updates says:

  02/02/2006 at 11:06

  [...] I found a plug-in to automatically generate meta-data from postings – it’s called autometa (http://boakes.org/autometa). It “automatically generates meta-data based on the full text of the post” and only if no tags exist already. I installed it into the wp-content/plugins folder and activated it. [...]
• Jonquil says:

  02/02/2006 at 14:15

  Hmm… it seems that with the new version of Autometa combined with Wordpress 2.0.1, there are NO keywords in the source code of ANY of my posts, just two quotation marks side by side.
• The Musings of Chris Samuel » Blog Archive » Further continued adventures with WordPress says:

  03/02/2006 at 11:46

  [...] I’ve also been playing around with another of Rich’s plugins – this time for the automatic generation of Technorati tags so this is a bit of a test to see if it’ll do what it says on the can.. [...]
• Jonquil says:

  03/02/2006 at 22:22

  Well, I somehow managed to get autometa to start making tags, but now I have a new problem – the same problem the people above have been talking about. Autometa makes the tags fine and my entries get posted, but each time I make a post I’m brought to a screen that says this:

  “Warning: uasort(): Invalid comparison function. in /hsphere/local/home/shortstu/vixenk.net/wp-content/plugins/autometa/autometa.php on line 73

  Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /hsphere/local/home/shortstu/vixenk.net/wp-content/plugins/autometa/autometa.php:73) in /hsphere/local/home/shortstu/vixenk.net/wp-admin/post.php on line 59″
• Brian Layman says:

  06/02/2006 at 19:42

  2.0.1 failure duplicated here too.
  Still looking at it.
  The custom field does get added to the page.
  And the admin page is there. I did have to add the full index.
  When I do save and edit on an old post, the field is added, but the metadata is not updated.
  If I manually update the field, the keywords are inserted.
  So, it is definatly the generation that is broken.
  I’ll see later what more I can find out….
• DG says:

  07/02/2006 at 00:33

  This is fantabulous! Thanks for a great plug-in that works right out of the box.
• The Musings of Chris Samuel » Blog Archive » Bird Flu Found in Africa for First Time says:

  08/02/2006 at 12:26

  [...] On a complete tangent, Rich Boakes “autometa” tag generator for Technorati came up with the following, rather appropriate, list: h5n1 arrived nigeria time bird identified africa worry [...]
• Derek says:

  10/02/2006 at 19:10

  Whats odd is that the plugin works fine if I’m posting via the write interface in the admin panel, but if I post via an XMLRPC client, it doesnt update the tags and also produces an error to the client. But the post still gets posted.. its strange.
• Thomas says:

  13/02/2006 at 11:46

  Doesn’t seem to work with WP 2.0.1. When I post I get a lot of errors.
• Ustrici says:

  13/02/2006 at 22:28

  Hello, I have never used your plugin and it seems to be very powerfull and helpfull. I would like to test it. Unfortunately, I got a similar already described by Jonquil. The same error message and keywords added to my post (very strange). Any news about this potential bug.

  My provider is “providing” WP 2.0.1, PHP 4.3.10, MySQL 4.1.15 under Linux.

  Thx by advance for your answer.
• Ryan says:

  14/02/2006 at 19:01

  I’m a smidge confused. (yes, a “smidge” – live with it. :p ) I do get automatically generated keywords (awesome, by the way!) but I don’t get the keywords showing up in the keyword meta tag in the html once all has been saved. Should I be adding some code to the “Single Post” (single.php) template? Or am I just not understanding how this thing works? I am assuming that it is supposed to add meta keywords into the html, right?

  Thanks for the great plugin!!
• August Klotz says:

  15/02/2006 at 18:10

  On WP 2.0, Autometa plugin seems to create custom headers okay, but also produces the following error each time it does so:

  “…uasort(): Invalid comparison function…”

  This error seems to occur with every single post view.
  I hope you find the time to look into this.

  Otherwise thank you for a great plugin.
• puneet says:

  16/02/2006 at 17:37

  I am getting this error
  Warning: uasort(): Invalid comparison function. in …./wp-content/plugins/autometa.php on line 73

  Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …./wp-content/plugins/autometa.php:73) in …./wp-admin/post.php on line 59
• John Smith says:

  16/02/2006 at 21:48

  I’m having the same problem, running WP 1.52, where the plugin installed fine, I have the fulltext index installed and it’s reporting it’s installed fine.

  The keyword tags are showing in the post, but no actual keywords are showing up in each individual post. Each post has keywords when I go to edit it, so they are there. They’re just not being displayed when the page is rendered.

  Running the latest version of the plugin as well.
• Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for Wordpress - boakes.org at go. says:

  17/02/2006 at 00:09

  [...] Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for Wordpress – boakes.org [...]
• FreakingGenius says:

  17/02/2006 at 00:38

  Hi Rich,
  I just installed the autometa for my website. Everytime I initially save a post I get a number of error messages:
  Warning: uasort(): Invalid comparison function. in /homepages/45/d153500400/htdocs/Blog/wp-content/plugins/autometa/autometa.php on line 73

  Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/45/d153500400/htdocs/Blog/wp-content/plugins/autometa/autometa.php:73) in /homepages/45/d153500400/htdocs/Blog/wp-admin/post.php on line 59

  when I hit the “back” button and try again, there seems to be no problem.

  I am fairly new to all of this so I was hoping you could tell me what the problem might be and how I might fix it.

  Thanks.
• Bug in AutoMeta plugin for WordPress » The R Zone says:

  17/02/2006 at 03:28

  [...] Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for Wordpress – boakes.org is a very useful plugin that does automatic Technorati and HTML META KEYWORDS tags. But there’s a bug in the plugin. [...]
• Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for Wordpress - boakes.org at go. says:

  17/02/2006 at 16:26

  [...] Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for Wordpress – boakes.org February 15th, 2006 [...]
• Rich says:

  17/02/2006 at 18:51

  FreakingGenius: your problem might be solved by or related to this codex article on “headers already sent” errors.
• Rich says:

  17/02/2006 at 19:20

  Anyone who’s seeing the “uasort bug” – I think i’ve fixed it. If you donwload the current version (0.5b) it should solve the problem.
• Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for Wordpress - boakes.org at go. says:

  17/02/2006 at 20:26

  [...] Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for Wordpress – boakes.org February 17th, 2006 [...]
• FreakingGenius says:

  17/02/2006 at 21:10

  Rich,

  I checked both items (i.e. the Codex on “headers already sent” and downloaded 0.5b) and it seems to work fine now. Thanks a lot!
• Rich says:

  17/02/2006 at 23:30

  Thanks for the update FreakingGenius; glad it’s fixed the problem. If anyone with the uasort problem can confirm if it’s fixed that would be very helpful too.
• Automatic Meta and Technorati Tags for Wordpress - boakes.org at go. says:

  18/02/2006 at 00:11

  [...] Automatic Meta and Technorati Tags for Wordpress – boakes.org February 17th, 2006 [...]
• James Stephens says:

  18/02/2006 at 01:08

  Dear Rich,

  I am running v0.5b in wordpess 2.0 and have added tags to an existing post and resaved the post but they don’t show up in the post. Viewing the page source for the Meta Tags shows no keywords:

  I made a test post, saved it to generate tags and then published it but I see the same thign as aboe … no keywords anywhere in the page source.

  I hope this information is helpful.

  Best,

  James

  http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jns/