Im building a new wordpress website/theme and I would like to do something similar to what joystiq does by having Categories (News, Reviews, Tutorials), Special tags (PC, Xbox, Linux etc) and normal tags (bf3, Christmas etc).
Im doing the special tags by prefixing the tag slug with a '@' and then checking the tag's slug in the theme and showing the ones with the @ in a different location (under the category like on Joystiq) and excluding them from the main tags list (though this means I have to write my own 'the_tags' type function.
Is there a nicer way to do this?
How can I allow @ in the tag slugs without having to edit them in the db?