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WordPress › MyBlogLog: Just for you « WordPress Plugins - I doubt this will get much uptake, but it is actually really neat. Anyone with a mybloglog cookie, when viewing a blog with this plugin, will see a list of posts on that blog that specifically match their interests.

Puzzlepieces down again?

argh. I noticed today that my blog appeared to be completely down, in the sense that all the pages were blank.. hmn… the Wordpress admin interface still worked…

Took me about a half our to track down the problem, which was solved by disabling a plugin that I don’t use anyway. I have no idea why, but can hardly be bothered to figure that out now.

this is a category-free zone

I installed WordPress two days ago and have had a little time to work on it. I’ve never used WordPress before and I’m extremely pleased with how easy it was to work with it and the plugin I’m using. That plugin would be Jerome’s Keywords.

After activating it I made modifications to my templates so that tags are displayed instead of categories for individual posts. I also modified the plugin to add a ‘related tags’ feature to the tag pages and search results pages, and a ‘common recent tags’ feature to the home page. All of which are done in order of frequency. The tags are also displayed with the meta keywords tag on individual post pages, tag pages, and search results pages, the latter two using the ‘related tags’. Lastly, I got the tags to show up in my atom feed in dc:subject, but not in the HTML.

So, that’s that, and I’m very happy with it. The only thing left to do really, is a ‘all tags’ page, but as I don’t know much about either WordPress or this plugin ;-) I think I’ll wait until the next version of the plugin for that.

Oh, and I intend to roll this back into the plugin eventually.

Update April 10 - I have added links to ‘this tag elsewhere’ from tag pages, added atom feeds for each tag and for any search, and added a ’search within this tag’ option to tag pages.

Test post

My first post in WordPress. I can’t believe this worked, and I can’t believe it was so easy.