Justin Blanton’s Smart Archives plugin is useful and I’ve used it to resucitate my archives page. I thought it would provide a list of categories as well - maybe I have to tinker around a little more or look at some other plugins. Either way, it’s a feature I’ve been meaning to add/fix in this blog for some time now.

I’m also going to look for a way to add a list of tags or a tag cloud to the same page. Since one of the main features of the updated WordPress 2.3 is to add tags, this capability is probably built in.

Update:

I’ve been able to add a “tag cloud” to the archives page (scroll all the way down) but it’s still not really looking the way I expected or desired. The code I used was this:

I’ll have to keep tinkering with this until I like it. I’ll also need to start adding tags to past posts so that this will work the way I would want. Oh … and at some point I also want to add a list of categories to the same page. It may be a little while until I figure out the format I really want for this …