I realize it has only been a couple of weeks, but have you seen any benefit in going to tags? Any traffic improvements, for example, that you could attribute to tagging?

Thanks for the Rewrite Rule, as well. I’ll save it for when there is a 2.3 that we all “have to” go to. I am slow on learning Apache and rewrite rules can be tricky.

RewriteRule ^categories/(.*) /tags/$1 [R=301,L]

I would not recommend upgrading just yet. I had a big issue with last night’s release and it is buggy that’s for sure. The WordPress bug tracker for trunk has over 300 open tickets, so.. yeah.

Do these tags wind up in your permalinks, like categories do?

I might want to go to 2.3 alpha myself, but I would be reluctant to do so if the tags wind up in the permalinks: if they do and I decided to go back to 2.2.2, then I would have 404’s for all the tag-related permalinks that get cached.

Thoughts?

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND post_author != '2' ORDER BY post_modified ASC' at line 1]
SELECT ID, post_title, post_author FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘post’ AND post_status = ‘pending’ AND post_author IN () AND post_author != ‘2′ ORDER BY post_modified ASC
can you help me out again ?

http://twitter.com/Stammy/statuses/197391912

I had that same problem earlier tonight. Try this:

sudo svn update -r 5857 wp-includes/wp-db.php

i tried repairing the tables but still didnt get any better,can you suggest something here ?

thanks

Basically instead of having to push your change to your svn repo, and then logging into your server to run the svn update, you just run a single command from your local machine that will push the changes to the repo and the run the update on the production server automatically. It can do lots of other stuff do. You write “recipes” for it to tell it what to do.

Anyways… I’ve been totally lazy about actually doing something with the tags on my blog. I’ve been “planning” to replace categories with tags for some time now, but never got around to it. Let me know how things go.

Re: wp_tag_cloud() — the function is defined in wp-includes/category-template.php and it takes an argument just like get_posts(), and a lot of other wp functions… there are two arguments in the default array of args called “exclude” and “include”. Didn’t verify this, but from my experience playing with WP I’d imagine “exclude” is a comma separated list of tags you want excluded. So try something like wp_tag_cloud(array(“exclude” => “Uncategorized,other,stuff,you,want,excluded”)); There’s also a wp_tag_cloud filter you can hook into if you want to modify stuff.

As it stands, I still use categories to divide my personal site (Journal and Portfolio) and thats it. It lets me have a clearly subdivided site, although with something like EE, I could just create seperate weblogs. This speaks to me because I don’t want my journal tag searches culling from the portfolio tag database.

I really despise the way that WP made blogroll a category, and made it a default. Blogroll is simply something I’ve never used, and having to see it in the categories page makes me angry.