It took a long time, but I now have my blog running WordPress 2.3 and my theme has been updated to go along with it. If there is one thing that I love about the Web 2.0 style now, it’s that everything gets tags. So, I was originally planning to get a tag plugin, but I read about some of them and they sounded quite complicated, and I assumed that they would be useless when this update came out. Luckily for users of tag plugins, WordPress 2.3 can import all the tags into the integrated tag library, though I wasn’t entirely wrong. So, as you’ve probably noticed, there is now a line under my original post meta for tags, and clicking on one of them brings you to a page that shows the top three tags and links you to my Tag Cloud page. I decided not to have the entire tag cloud above the tag archives, it looked too cluttered and disorganized. It could be worked into some blogs, though, and putting in on a sidebar for just that page would look great. Check out the WordPress Codex page for the tag cloud WP Tag for how to go about doing that.

I thought it was time to do some cleaning up while I did this update, and there were a couple of minor ones in the days before that I did on a whim. The icons in the footer are probably the most noticeable one, I really like ‘em. I just uhttp://dotkenneth.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
dotKenneth.com › Create New Post — WordPresspdated the Twitter plugin I’m using before writing this post; WordPress 2.3 lets you know if there are updates to plugins that are hosted on WordPress.org, it’s a cool feature. Everything else is just minor style changes, more icons, a new look for the date by the post title, etc. I’m quite proud of that calendar “icon,” by the way, it actually resembles a day-by-day calendar this time but it’s still all made from CSS code. I also added the Facebook Application/WordPress Plugin WordBook thanks to a recommendation from Bill. It’s looking good so far, much better than the regular Facebook RSS-import Notes app.

That’s basically it for the changelog, I guess. Suggestions would be great. I would have jumped on 2.3 the day it came out, but I had a big art project to finish, and my 360 got back, too, so I had to catch up on some demos. Now, my friend Harry’s 360 died for a second time. (The first he just got it replaced from where he bought it, but I think he has to send it into Microsoft this time.) Anyways, since he can’t play it, he lent me BioShock, which I wasn’t planning on buying, what with a million games coming out before the holidays and my currently limited funds. That’s what I’ll be spending the majority of my weekend playing, probably, maybe you’ll hear my thoughts on it in a future post. So far, I’m liking it a lot. Oh, and I’ll have to write a Heroes blog soon. I’ve been saying I’ll do since, like, the middle of the first season.

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