I think I’ve finally completed my upgrade to WordPress 2.3. I wish I knew then what I know now. There are things I’ve learned since upgrading that would have been nice to know back when I originally upgraded. For instance, even though WordPress 2.3 wont work with tagging plugins such as Ultimate Tag Warrior, it will import existing data from Ultimate Tag Warrior. It will import from other tagging plugins such as Jerome’s Keywords and Simple Tagging too.
This would have been nice to know. Instead of importing, I manually edited posts with new links. It was probably for the best since I was able to correct some issues with images and other alignment issues.
I also found a great plugin today that takes the built-in tagging capability of WordPress 2.3 and converts tags to link to Technorati. It’s ingeniously called Technorati Tags For WordPress 2.3. Once you’ve installed the plugin to it’s usual spot (/wp-content/plugins/), you will need to manually edit your theme’s single.php and index.php files. This is what I did:
Before
After
This will make your tags link back to Technorati instead of an archive on your own blog comprised of posts using that tag. I would rather have tags link to Technorati. Like they used to.
You have no idea how much sleep I’ve lost over this turmoil. Alright, honestly I don’t understand any of it, but I feel your pain, brother.