One solution is to use a local version and copy over directories. This is the philosophy followed by Raphael Schwartz of using the file system. Directories are named appropriately but empty - God knows what would happen if there were any content in them. Those names are the links at the bottom of the page. So to link pages create a directory named by the name of the page to link to and place it in the linking page directory space and reciprocate.
About local
This is maybe a mistake. Now I edit locally and have to copy everything across. That was caused by everything being so sloooow on ubuntu. When actually is was the damn Netgear DG2000 router failing.
But now I'm a bit stuck with it.
About this method of tag creation
Not exactly using Lua to do this. Couldn't begin to guess how I might. No, actually didn't think it possible, but not positive.
About driving traffic
Now I know. Introduce a trending topic into a tweet and reference the post will draw in at least a lot of bots. Lua is funny as I can see them in the terminal window, no need to look at logs. And really I can interpret them immediately given the simplicity of what I'm doing.
About tags
Not sure what to do with the tag index. That seems redundant. or is it? There are two distinct tag strategies I can use. This one, which is more convenient and uses references between pages, or the index which would use the index as a reference point - indirection if you will.