I use Obsidian not just for my notes, but as the starting point for everything I write, including posts for my WordPress blog. The Properties feature is key to this, but I’ve found a recurring snag in my workflow that I’d love to see improved.
When I’m getting a post ready, I want to be able to copy my tags back and forth between Obsidian and WordPress without thinking about it.
The problem is, the formats are completely different. In WordPress, my tags are just a simple, comma-separated list:
Nintendo, Mario Kart, Video Games
But in Obsidian’s Properties (in source mode), my tags look like this:
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tags:
- Nintendo
- Mario-Kart
---
To move my tags from Obsidian to WordPress, I have to manually reformat that block—deleting the hyphens, getting rid of the line breaks, and adding commas. It’s a tedious extra step every single time I publish.
My request is to make the tags property smart enough to understand the simple, comma-separated format that WordPress and many other platforms use.
It would be a game-changer if I could just have this in my properties:
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tags: Nintendo, Mario Kart, Video Games
---
This would create a perfectly seamless, copy-and-paste workflow. I could finalize my tags in one place and know they’ll work in the other without any manual reformatting. It would be a huge boost for anyone using Obsidian as a hub for content creation.
Thanks for making such a great product and for always being open to feedback!
