I just finished a quick update to the Jerome’s Keywords to add compatibility for WordPress 2.0. Thanks to everyone who sent in reminders & suggestions, and a big thank-you to Horst Gutmann whose patch is the basis for this update.
Not much else has changed, except the ability to hide suggested keywords — but why would you want to? So you can stick with the 1.7/1.8 version of the plugin unless you have a burning need to upgrade to buggy WP2.0.
A serious update to this plugin is in the works which will build on the tagging system I wrote for LightPress. Tag management, an option page and the ability to import tags from other plugins (so you can switch back from UTW). It’s going to be great!
Rants —
28-Dec-2005 11:43
Despite all appearances, I am still alive. The last four months have been very busy and I’ve been on the road about 50% of the time. So now I’m taking advantage of the holidays to relax a bit.
I have many stories to tell and many pictures to show. I also have a lot to catch up on. But for now you’ll have to settle for this set from Ruckle Point on Vancouver Island.
Jerome’s Keywords Update:
Thanks to everyone who has sent in bug reports and patches related to WordPress 2.0. I should be able to produce a 2.0-compatible plugin soon.
My host moved this site to a new server the other day, so hopefully everything made it over in one piece. It was amusing to get e-mails about new comments being posted despite the fact that I couldn’t access the new server myself (DNS issue with my ISP). So if I haven’t responded to your e-mail or your comment has disappeared, please let me know.
PreFormatted 1.0 Released
The newest PreFormatted release is now online and includes some minor fixes. Specifically, a few filters had to be tweaked due to changes in the official Strayhorn release. I also added a fix for a common WordPress problem: wpautop() likes to place your <!--more--> and <!--nextpage--> tags into their own paragraph blocks. This produces invalid XHTML when your post gets split into multiple pages. PreFormatted will remove the offending tags when possible.
I have many features planned for the next release, including keeping a copy of posts in their original format. I’ve been using Markdown lately (on another project) so expect PreFormatted to play nicer with other formatting plugins — my strategy should allow it to detect which filters need to re-arranged automatically.
Jerome’s Keywords — Roadmap
Thanks again to everyone who has sent me feedback about this plugin. As mentioned in a previous comment thread, there is an alpha of version 1.5 that can be used to create a tag cosmos. I plan to release 1.5-final in the next few days, which will add a “top X” (insert your number here) keyword list and will fix the way category meta keywords are handled.
I suspect that the new features of 1.5 won’t scale very well for heavily used sites, so the next major release (2.0) will move to a different storage scheme. Don’t worry, the conversion will be painless and completelybehind the scenes. The plan also calls for an options page for easier customization.