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UPDATE 27-Aug-2006: The table creation bug in the first beta has been fixed, thanks to the keen eye of Francesco Ferrucci. My apologies for including such an obvious bug, and for my 2 week absence (I’ve been on vacation).

UPDATE 4-Sep-2006: Some minor changes (now at beta3) for compatibility with MySQL 3.23, Semiologic and Chip’s tag cloud widget.

So over the past week, I’ve been working towards my promise (made only a scant 7+ months ago) of delivering a 2.0 version of “Jerome’s Keywords”. I’m glad to announce that most of the rewriting and debugging are done so there’s a beta of the 2.0 version for you to try out.

Before you do, a few caveats:

• It’s strictly WordPress 2.0+, older versions of WP aren’t supported.
• Tags are now stored in a dedicated table for performance reasons, so you need “create table” access on your database.

What’s new:

• Fixes a whole bunch of minor bugs introduced by WP2.0 (suggested keywords, including categories, etc.).
• Adds tag management features from LightPress.
• Adds an option page to make tag display setup easier.
• Including meta keywords in your header is now a one-click option; no template code required.
• Nicer template tag functions for posts and tag clouds (and no parameters required if you use the option page).
• Random tag cloud sort feature. (more...)

Has it really been that long? Work has been keeping me very busy, and most of my remaining time has been taken up by various pursuits such as randonneuring (more on that later). But after spending the last week or so cleaning up the 4000+ comments held in moderation here (95% spam), it’s finally time to write a bit.

I’ll start with answering a few questions Erik Pöhler sent my way in the form of a “Stöckchen”: (more...)