Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Farewell Ultimate Tag Warrior

I’ve spent the last four hours or so upgrading to the latest Wordpress (off SVN). I’m now running 2.3 beta2. Thanks to an in-built tagging system, I have done away with UTW , which was running like a dog, due to (known) database issues. I’ve also spent ages checking and updating plugins… many of which (may) have issues with Wordpress 2.3. Watch out for that!

Technorati Tags: wordpress, upgrade, ultimate tag warrior, tagging, wordpress plugins, asides

Sphere: Related Content

This entry was written by Alister Cameron and posted on 9 September 2007 at 1:01 am and tagged: Asides, tagging, ultimate tag warrior, upgrade, Wordpress, wordpress-plugins. // Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. // Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

9 Comments

Note: Commenter website links are not no-followed, in case
you were wondering... I believe in rewarding commenters!

Andy Beard

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

Did you also update to Sandbox 1.0 or stick with and modify your original conversion?

I have 2.3 beta 2 on a test system currently, I know this is a time consuming process
Slevi

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

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 :P.

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.
Nathan Rice

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

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
Matt B.

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

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 ?
Rob Witham

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

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!
cerebralmum

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

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.
Brent Crouch

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

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.
Fred Peters

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

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

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago // Permalink

@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

3 Trackbacks/Pingbacks

By coComment -
Posted -1933 years, 6 months ago

view blog[IMG]
By Dropdown category plugin installation problem « PressHarbor Discussion Forums
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

[...] 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 Our First Monday Blog Links | Blogging Profits
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

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