In a previous post, I posed the question "what's next?" I guess it was just a matter of time before I try digging deeper into WordPress 2.3's taxonomy schema, more specifically, the native tag cloud support. There's nothing wrong with WordPress 2.3, honestly. At least, for me. I like it, even if a lot of people aren't very happy with the database changes it made in the background. I can't blame them. No matter how many times someone explains the impact those changes will make, it will still confuse most of the WordPress users out there, including me. So what did I do now? I wrote another plugin that will display the tag cloud linking to Technorati instead of the blog. A plugin involving Technorati tags again? Do I have an unknown addiction to Technorati? Do I love Technorati that much?

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So after updating my theme, writing up a hack, and finishing my plugin, I finally had the time to test a couple of "WordPress Things" Christine from the Internet created for WordPress 2.3. One of those things would be the Tag Managing Thing. It made managing Tags and Categories for WordPress 2.3 a whole lot easier, what with the new "taxonomy" thing still being so...recent. It even, somehow, enlightened me how 2.3 treats categories and tags as both are referred to by WordPress 2.3 as terms, but please do not be confused. These two things are completely different, semantically at least. Now I have a more organized Category structure and a more search engine-friendly Tags structure (I hope). The instructions in the readme file is not that really comprehensive, but once I started checking it out on my testing server, I kinda figured it out and it wasn't that hard. AND there were no errors whatsoever. I was also able to test Tag Suggest Thing, and it really helps in tagging posts, which makes the hack I wrote pretty much useless, unless there's a term you wanted to re-use. It's really a breeze to install and use. After all this hoopla that is WordPress 2.3, I can't help but wonder, what's next? I'm guessing a few more plugins adding functionality to the new taxonomy system, and a whole lot of new themes that would somehow take advantage of its new features. What do you think?