ten billion butterfly sneezes

Yesterday afternoon, the tag test post was evidence of my further efforts in WordPress 2.3 site tagging.

I have been using the Simple Tags plugin for Technorati tag generation for a while now, and I’ve been pleased with its functioning. With the advent of WP 2.3, you can now have site tags in your posts, and the Embedded Tag Thing does a great job of adding site tags to the WP database. However, to get site tags to display on the blog, I had to edit the site’s theme. This displayed tags when visiting the site, but not in its Atom feed.

So yesterday afternoon, I managed to hack up both plugins to display both site and Technorati tags on the blog and also to include both in the Atom feed. I let the Simple Tags plugin take care of expanding and displaying the site tags, and then modified ETT so it only updates the tag database. I was then able to revert the theme to its original state.
The results are there now for all to see. WordPress has a motto “Code is Poetry.” With my modifications, perhaps the code no longer is quite as mellifluous, but I go for results first; beauty will come in due course. And I had fun doing it.

-k-

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