Hashtag 2.1.1

Provides #Hashtag support (Automatic creation of Vanilla Tags, side panel display, auto-links and meta area display).

The Hashtag plugin automatically adds tags from hashtags embedded in the discussion title and optionally from the discussion and comment contents.

Several options are controlled via the configuration screen:

• Optionally set embedded hashtags as links to all discussions with the same hashtag.
• Display of hashtags in the meta area of discussion lists
• Display a side panel with links to discussions with the same hashtag set (e.g. if the current discussion is hashtagged with #plugin and #test then the side panel will display discussions tagged with both hashtags)

The plugin requires the official Vanilla Tagging plugin.

Permission Settings:

• User permission to add Vanilla tags must be set in Roles and Permissions.
• Additionally Permission to add hashtags must be set in Roles and Permissions.
  The dual permissions provides Administrators the ability to retrict automatic hashtagging to a subset of the users allowed to tag discussions.

The plugin honors the Vanilla security model - the side panel will only show discussions in categories the user has access to.
See the included screen shots.

Tested under Vanila 2.2 as well as Vanila 2.3b1.
Change log:
Version 2:

• Added hashtag display in the meta area
• Added sidepanel
• Minor code formatting
• Annotated screen captures
  Version 2.1.2:
  -Decreased setting for minimum number of letters in a hashtag from 4 to 2
  -Fixed the bug that marked html tags with an hashtag as true user-intended hashtags
  -Tighten up the validation of hashtags
  -Limit the maximum number of hashtags processed per discussion to the 'Plugin.Tagging.Max' settings of the Tagging Plugin (the Vanila default maximum value is 5).
  -Added verification that the taggin plugin was not disabled after the hashtag plugin was enabled.