As a blogger, I want to provide the best way for my readers to get to the content they want to see. In addition, I want to provide insight to my readers as to what is available to them. Therefore, I’d like to have the option of seeing tag counts with the tag labels.
Context…
I currently use a stable set of tags that are leveraged as my menu structure. However, I’d like to expand the use of tags to function not as a menu choice but as another way of identifying the content.
Use case…
My tags currently divide my blogs into the following categories:
- Technology
- Economics
- Environment
- Culture
- Politics
- Regulations
I want to add additional tags so that I can include blog topics such as:
- Nuclear
- Solar
- Wind
- Coal
- Electricity
- Oil
- Gas
- Carbon Capture
- Transmission
For the topic tags, I’d like to include the number of blogs associated with that topic. I see myself putting a vertical box on pages with the topic tags and their counts where clicking on the topic tags presents a blog index of those blog posts — just like what is seen when a category tag is clicked.
Taken one step further, I would love to see the size of the topic tag in the vertical box to be auto-sized relative to the topic count. (I don’t recall the word/phrase that is used to describe this UI object.)
I know I can do the tag count manually. However, it would be a great time saver if Sparkle can do the counting for me and update the number automatically (and resize?) as additional blog posts are created and tagged.