Like a burning comet ☄ Wordpress 2.3 has arrived; the big outward-facing feature is baked-in tagging support.
Two plugins of note at this early stage:
(1) Tag Managing Thing — Wordpress allows you to transform categories into tags, which isn’t quite right. Anything else, and you are either writing SQL or using the Tag Managing Thing. You will find it helpful for renaming, splitting, and deep-sixing tags.
(2) New Tag Cloud — plugin which exposes a Wordpress widget that is a micro wrapper around wp_tag_cloud (except that number behaves differently, go figure). The built-in widget for displaying a tag list/miasma doesn’t allow for any customization, and where’s the glory in that?
There are the usual errors and omissions in how tags are handled in the front-end template and WP administration. But the big plus is that, finally, the table structure is a little more civilized as re: post categories and link categories and (now) per-post tags baselined into Wordpress.
To say more would be to devolve into standard issue tag-and-bucket praises of del.icio.us, for which there’s neither space nor time enough, tonight!
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