Author: Christine D.

Ultimate Tag Warrior: Fin. The End

Okay! This is the last version of Ultimate Tag Warrior. The state-of-the-edge version of WordPress includes tagging, so duplicating functionality in this plugin seems kinda dumb.

But fear not! Just as soon as I finish writing this blog entry (and, uh, making a new wordpress theme for my site.. it’s about time I had a new one (: ); I’m going to see about making some sort of UTW:Render plugin that will display tags from wordpress in much the same way as they were displayed using UTW.

In any case, there’s a final update that can be downloaded from here, which has a few fixes for search and such.

Interesting Times, I suppose

Blink Kitty

That’s a picture of a cat that got hit by a car this week; taken with a camera which was stolen when I was burgled a few weeks back. There comes a point where you stop being too attached to the things that you have; because you start expecting them to vanish.

On the upside, I guess, I do have a shiny matte black MacBook. Whee. Not to mention sweet-kitties sister. Who seems to be trying to fill the gap that he left behind.

Fneh.

My compy at home died ): I’m not too sure when I’m going to have it working again, or indeed, how much of my stuff I’ll be able to get back. This is deeply irritating.

Monetizing My WordPress Blog

I’m going to give advertisements through Project Wonderful a shot, to see if they’re more useful to me than adsense (Adsense works pretty well – it covers the cost of hosting; but it’s not as good as it could be from a CPM point of view).

Project Wonderful has a nifty name, which is something I like in things; but I think the way you buy ads is interesting – you pay by the day, in auctions: The person who has the highest bid gets their ad displayed. There’s more about how it works here.

At the moment, I’ve put five slots on the main Ultimate Tag Warrior page to see what happens; since that’s where most of the traffic goes (:

p.s. there will be a release of next generation UTW sometime soon…

A Call To Plugin Authors

I’m going to restructure Ultimate Tag Warrior a bit. I’m not sure about the finer details of it yet.

However. If you’ve written a plugin or other such thing which interacts with or depends on Ultimate Tag Warrior; you should let me know how you use it, so that I don’t break your plugins (:

If you use the template tags (UTW_Show…), I’ll make sure that is going to keep working in much the same way (so if you have a UTW theme, it will probably be A-OK); but if you use functions in the Ultimate Tag Warrior classes, it’s much more important that you tell me what you’re using.

Awesome.

UTW: Maybe it’s time for a revolutionary change

I’ve been thinking about changing UTW to have a bare-bones tagging implementation; with additional plugins to perform various bits of extra functionality.

Would having to enable a handful of plugins be completely irritating? Would it be confusing?

(So you’d have the core-UTW plugin with, say, a simple formatting plugin and the geegaw tag-interface; or perhaps core-UTW with fine grained formatting and a textbox tag-interface (ooh! or one suited to Asian language); or maybe you’d enable some kind of import/export plugin to do that task as you need it, then disable it once complete; or all sorts of things)

So, uh, feedback would be nice (:

Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265

Hokay. More bugfixes!

  • The thing with tags being eaten by the wordpress 2.1 beta by comment-actions ought to be fixed.
  • The thing where atom feeds were coming back invalid because of a mix of dc:subject and category tags.
  • The thing where bbPress and UTW wouldn’t play nice because UTW had a is_tag function, and bbPress had one too. [If UTW sees that the is_tag function already exists, it isn’t declared; and there’s a is_utwtag function that bbPress users can use instead. Yeah.]

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