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The permalink structure of this blog has been updated. I used to include "category" in my permalinks but since tags have been greatly promoted in WordPress 2.3, I believe that categories are going to be disfavored by both users and the development team in the future. Thus I abolished it (so far not completely though). Meanwhile I've activated the plugin Permalink Redirect. This plugin will be serving my blog till Google gets all my permalinks updated.

WordPress 2.3 RC1 is out, the final version will not be far away. I have to catch up, hopefully by the time 2.3 arrives, I can finish my new theme and give this site a slight yet graceful reboot.

This time the good news comes from Ultimate Tag Warrior, another (used-to-be?) must-have plugin.

First, a bugfix version of UTW Final for the current WordPress has been released. Second, a beta version for WordPress 2.3 is out. And of course, the latter one is what I care about.

So far, three "sub-plugins (things)" has been unveiled to beta testers:

"Tag Suggest Thing", which benefited from the Yahoo! term extraction API, and dopes out keywords basing on the post content.

"Embedded Tag Thing", which allows you to include tags as hyper links in the post content.

Update:
"Tag Managing Thing" is out! I've been waiting for it! With this lovely thing you can rename tags / slugs, delete tags, and even split tags!

WordPress 2.3 will be coming with native tagging support, probably next week. What UTW can do from now on, is to have some additional functions for us. To be frank, I was not much interested in these two "things". The expected "tag cloud" has been integrated into the latest WordPress svn but is poorly customizable, Christine should spend some time on it. Another thing that has been worrying me is the "Add tags as meta keywords" function, I'm not sure if it's still necessary since we already have rel="tag". Am I misunderstanding something?

Oh I almost forgot about the "Related Posts" function. Those who are at the same time using UTW and other related-posts plugins, do you know UTW itself can do this like a charm? Just read the readme files inside UTW package carefully. By the way, a guy from China has worked out something already.

At last, if you also want to be one of the beta testers, send request to this e-mail.

Extended Live Archives is still one of the most outstanding archives plugin today, though it is losing popularity within WordPress blogsphere. WordPress 2.3 will come with native support for tagging, the upgrade of database structure has resulted in incompatibilities for the current version of ELA and a number of other plugins. A Hongkong blogger Tinyau, has recently modified ELA to accommodate the new database structure. An unofficial version of ELA that supports WordPress 2.3 alpha is now available.

For more information and the download link, read Tinyau's blog entry.