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[...] Alister Cameron says Farewell Ultimate Tag Warrior [...]

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Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:27:54 +0000

[...] deswalsh Member John OK, I’ll try that. Just noticed an interesting post and set of comments re plugins and 2.3 at this link http://www.alistercameron.com/2007/09/09/farewell-ultimate-tag-warrior/#comments [...]

By: Alister Cameron

Alister Cameron — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:48:02 +0000

@Andy – mate, I stuck with my original conversion. I plan to make the leap at some time, which should be pretty easy, but I’ve left that for another day.

@Nathan – thanks buddy, I missed that one. Will get to it asap.

@Matt – the only one that I saw newly integrated was UTW (sort of) with the new native tagging (taxonomy thingy). There may be others, but not that I was using.

@Brent – there is a very good UTW-specific importer in Wordpress 2.3. It worked without a hitch (I tested it first!).

One thing on plugins…

It may be that more plugins will/would break after deleting the tables in the database that are no longer used in Wordpress 2.3. I have left those tables there. I figured it was easier for now to do that.

http://www.boren.nu has more on schema changes in 2.3 if you need to know…

-Alister

By: Fred Peters

Fred Peters — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:55:10 +0000

That is great news. I hate using Ultimate Tag Warrior.

By: Brent Crouch

Brent Crouch — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:17:56 +0000

Did you loose all your tags and have to rebuild them, or did they somehow transfer into the new wordpress?

I was getting tired of UTW always erasing my tags everytime I approved a comment. Looking forward to the new version of wordpress.

By: cerebralmum

cerebralmum — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:06:20 +0000

Errrgggh!

I just spent 5 hours editing my theme to display Ultimate Tag Warrior tags where I wanted them and how I wanted them without breaking my layout. And I’m not even done yet.

But in a couple of months I’ll be getting my own domain and new host so I’ll be able to upgrade then and take my time getting it right before I close down the old site.

Looking forward to learning more about 2.3.

Thank for the heads up.

By: Rob Witham

Rob Witham — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:38:22 +0000

Built-in tagging?! Awesome! I have been thinking about adding a tagging plugin to my site but I think I will hold off now for the official 2.3 release. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:37:22 +0000

I would love to know which plugins we can spare by using WP 2.3 – obviously UTW can go, that’s a good thing.

Any more plugins integrated to core ?

By: Nathan Rice

Nathan Rice — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:00:56 +0000

I know it’s an ongoing process, but for your benefit, I noticed that the UTW tags are still present on this page, and it returns an error.
http://www.alistercameron.com/sitemap/

Nathan

By: Slevi

Slevi — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:09:31 +0000

I’ve installed the beta for testing currently only but didn’t run into problems with the plugins I installed, so far it appears to be running quite smoothly. I must admit though that you do have a whole lot of plugins which I am not using .

The tagging system built in definitely is great though, a warm welcomed feature. Going to wait a bit though before upgrading my blog itself to 2.3, bringing it along directly with quite a bunch of other big changes.