Tag Archives: Metadata

WordPress 2.9 Features

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2009

This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new features will be considered for this version, and the developers will concentrate on finishing up the existing new features and any outstanding bugs. So far, it appears that all of my plugins are working just fine.

The main new features I’ve actually seen so far are the addition of the “Post Thumbnail” box in the writing screen, the new “trash” status for posts, pages, and comments, and the image editor in the Media Library. [...]

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HeadMeta 1.4

By Dougal | Published: December 17, 2008

Due to changes in the postmeta API, my HeadMeta plugin had a compatibility problem with some recent versions of WordPress. The problem appeared when there was only one postmeta value (either a ‘head_meta’ or ‘head_link’ entry) associated with a post. [...]

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New theme, same as the old theme

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2007

I’ve done some minor maintenance around here. Can you spot the differences? Probably not. What I’ve done is upgraded my old Sandbox 0.6.1 theme to the new 1.0 version, and made a few minor adjustments to my CSS to account for the differences. Visually, there’s not a whole heck of a lot of difference between the current theme and the previous version, other than the addition of tags to the post metadata.

Speaking of tags, I’ve mentioned before that I had been using the WordPress category system more like a tagging system, and that I regretted that decision. [...]

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Tags and Categories in WordPress 2.3

By Dougal | Published: September 22, 2007

Since the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release will debut the new tagging system, I thought I’d take some time to address what it means to use “tags” versus using “categories”. These things mean different things to different people, as it’s really just a matter of how you want to use them. But let’s examine what tags and categories are, how they are similar, how they are different, and why you might choose to use one system over the other, or use them together.

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Follow you, follow me

By Dougal | Published: February 15, 2007

Two years ago today, we released WordPress version 1.5. This was a pretty major release that introduced several new features that are still major staples of the current 2.1 branch: the Dashboard, Themes, and Pages. It also added a minor new change which was mildly controversial to some: comments were automatically flagged with the ‘nofollow’ attribute.

The rel="nofollow" idea had good intentions: to give content producers a way to link to another site without implying that they approve of it. [...]

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HeadMeta Update

By Dougal | Published: July 14, 2005

Prompted by some recent comments, I have made a minor update to my HeadMeta Plugin. There are now links to the color-coded PHP source, a plaintext version, a .ZIP file, and a .tar.gz tarball.

The new version adds automatic generation of a standard <meta/> tag for posts which have a custom ‘keyword’ or ‘keywords’ field. I often tag my posts with a ‘keyword’ field for use with the Related Posts plugin, so I figured I might as well re-use and expose that data in some fashion.

I’ve also updated it to use the is_single() function instead of the global $single variable. [...]

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