# Tags and attachments / repository

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-and-attachments-repository/84119>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [February 1, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-and-attachments-repository/84119 "2007-02-01T17:08:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-and-attachments-repository/84119/1 "2007-02-01T17:08:37Z")

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Hello again,

I have been very busy lately, but now I’m starting to get around to  
building my blog/site. One features/request that I haven’t seen  
mentioned much is “tagging”. I’d like to create a taxonomy of  
keywords, where each page can have one or more of these tags.

Is something like this available as an extension to Mental, or is it  
possible to use an existing, more general extension or feature to do  
this?

The second question is more common, but I haven’t found a  
comprehensive answer:

Are there plans for a media repository for Radiant? I’ve seen the  
Mephisto approach, which seems nice. Would it be possible to use the  
same code?

Another approach would be to allow simple attachments to pages in  
some way, and having access to the list of attachments as a Radiant  
tag? Is there an extension that does this, or are there any plans to  
create one.

I am more than willing to help out coding extensions, if you are  
willing to put up with my inane questions.

And yes, I know Mephisto has all this. Maybe I’m flogging a dead  
horse holding on to my choice of Radiant?

Best regards,  
Martin O.  
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**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-and-attachments-repository/84119/2 "2007-02-01T17:16:37Z")

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If all you want to do is blog and need tags, Mephisto is probably a  
better  
choice at the moment. The 0.7 release (0.6 RC1 is expected this  
weekend)  
will include better blogging support, including wholly new commenting  
and  
tagging extensions.

Sean

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**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-and-attachments-repository/84119/3 "2007-02-02T00:11:30Z")

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> Another approach would be to allow simple attachments to pages in  
> some way, and having access to the list of attachments as a Radiant  
> tag? Is there an extension that does this, or are there any plans to  
> create one.

There’s currently two different implementations. My own and sean’s.  
Seans will give you better performance (as it hands over asset control  
to the web server), whereas mine will give you better image manipulation  
and a different url structure. I’m working on the performance issues in  
my implementation, but it will never be as fast as sean’s. It’s probably  
safe to say at this point that neither of the extensions is in a  
finalised state, but they’re both usable.

Have a look through the mailing list archives for january for more  
discussion.

Dan.