So, I have been hesitant to continue to upgrade Wordpress on this site whenever a new release is out for a number of reasons. I have hacked up a number of the native functions and add-on plugins and since I am such a rookie, I have not made a log of what I have done. This is probably why I will just start from scratch, import the posts over to a clean install and build from there. Probably the biggest reason for moving over to 2.3 is native support for Tags. I think tagging is something that every type of media (audio, video, still image, etc) should have support for. Indexing becomes much easier and people are becoming more accustomed to using tags every day because of services like Delicious, Amazon and dare I say Technorati. I was just reading a great introduction to Wordpress 2.3 and I the first thing I thought of when I read about tag support was the demise of Technorati. I think Technorati is a good idea on paper, but I think it is a poor execution. I don’t really have any mind blowing ideas on how it could be done better, but one thing is for sure, I don’t like them. Maybe it is because every link on their site has nofollow on it and has for as long as I can remember. Yeah, actually that is it. Screw you Melon is what I say. Let them go down in a blaze of glory when everyone upgrades to Wordpress 2.3 and links to their own pages with their tags rather than to technostingy.

Anyway, version 2.3 is supposed to be released today, and I will be putting together a new install to check it out and set things up. Apparently there are some issues with the awesome Google Sitemaps plugin that I have been using since its inception. I will wait until that issue is fixed before I make the new install live.

tags: 2.3, blogging, tags, technorati, wordpress