Wow, this episode of WordPress Weekly is a long one so be prepared to have some time set aside to listen to it, or break it up into two sections. In this episode, we talk about what the implications are for WordPress with SimplePie ceasing development, big changes coming to users of Woopra, the winner of the 2009 plugin competition hosted by Weblogtoolscollection.com and one of the last topics we discussed dealt with the feud between WPMU.org and Matt Mullenweg.
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Stories Discussed:
SimplePie Disappears
Big Changes To Woopra
WeblogToolsCollection.com Plugin Competition Winner Announced
WordPress.com – Image Widget and Support Improvements
Matt And WPMU.org Go At It Again
WordPress Tavern Listener Poll:
Last weeks poll question was: Who’s Responsible For Keeping Your WordPress Site Up To Date?
Out of a total of 74 votes, 50 of you said the end user, 9 people voted for the new world order, at least seven of you said Matt Mullenweg, 6 voted for WordPress while 2 people voted for Automattic.
This Weeks Poll Question Is: Who has the craziest WordPress upgrading story?
Picks Of The Week:
Jeff – What it means to use WordPress as a CMS
David – Styling Posts
This Weeks Trivia Question
What is the template tag that was introduced in WordPress 2.3 which provided one of the major feature additions in WordPress themes?
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I don’t want to go any near this latest WordPress debate, but I appreciate you guys covering both perspectives fairly.
This trivia question is a little tricky, it looks like the big feature in 2.3 was tags? Only significant template tag I see is “the_tags”…
Welcome back to the show Jeff! You and David covered a lot of ground in this episode. Too bad I wasn’t able to be there to listen in live.
My answer for the trivia question comes from the WordPress Codex article about version 2.3:
Developer / Power User Stuff
For adding tagging to themes see the_tags and wp_tag_cloud
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.3#Developer_.2F_Power_User_Stuff
In 2.3 they added tagging to themes with the_tags and wp_tag_cloud.
2.3 has quite a nice codex page, with screenshots etc- when you can compare it to 2.8′s
Yep, all three of you got the right answer. That’s the function tag I was looking for. Back in those days, I used the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin but thankfully, the exporting of tags from that plugin into the WordPress system was seamless.