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New theme, same as the old theme

10/16/2007 – 3:45 pm

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Semantics, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged categories, CSS, delicious, Flickr, Metadata, Sandbox, SemanticWeb, tagging, WordPress | Comments (11)

Tags and Categories in WordPress 2.3

9/22/2007 – 11:15 am

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. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Search, Semantics, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged API, delicious, Folksonomies, Metadata, plugin, Plugins, Politics, taxonomy, Technorati, Web, WordPress | Comments (46)

WordPress 2.3 Beta 1

8/29/2007 – 11:17 am

As announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. Some of the features of 2.3 include automatic notification for plugin and core code version updates, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

The new tag system includes an importer for those using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, and importers for a couple of other popular plugins are in the works. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, Java, JavaScript, plugin, Plugins, Releases, SEO, taxonomy, WordPress | Comments (4)

WP Tags: Perhaps I spoke too soon…

4/19/2007 – 2:49 pm

Doh. I should have caught up on my wp-hackers reading before I made that last post. It appears that we’re going to delay the tags support until version 2.3 in order to have more time to flesh out all the details properly. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Perl, Releases, Widgets, WordPress | Comments (13)

WordPress 2.2 Delayed

4/19/2007 – 1:03 pm

A while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer “big” new features in each release. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Atom, delicious, Feeds, Flickr, plugin, Plugins, Releases, RSS, Technorati, WordPress | Comments (16)

del.icio.us daily blog post fixer plugin

4/7/2006 – 9:06 am

I mentioned previously that I wanted to make a WordPress plugin that would touch up the posts created by the del.icio.us “daily blog post” feature. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, Microformats, Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged delicious, Folksonomies, plugin, WordPress | Comments (43)

Linkitude

3/15/2006 – 12:20 pm

The previous post was the first on this site that was auto-generated by the del.icio.us “daily blog posting” feature. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Microformats, Semantics, Services, WordPress | Also tagged Folksonomies, PHP, plugin, this-site | Comments (10)

Yahoo! My Web 2.0

6/29/2005 – 9:19 am

Somehow, I must find time to play with Yahoo! My Web 2.0… I don’t have time to read up on it and comment intelligently right now. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Search | Also tagged API, Folksonomies, PHP, Service, Social, yahoo | Comments (3)

Feedlounge web-based aggregator

6/10/2005 – 2:12 pm

Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. [...]