I’ve begun to experiment with the Simple Tags Plugin and am finding that it provides the user with extraordinary capability to quickly add and edit tags on posts. It’s really quite a powerful and easy-to-use plugin. I highly suggest it to anyone who has upgraded to WordPress 2.3.

I would not be surprised if this plugin code is adopted into the core of future versions of WordPress.  It offers so much control and versatility with the tags feature.  I’ve only begun using it and am already feeling that it’s going to become essential.

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 …

WordPress users in the Bloggernacle who have Facebook accounts may want to try out the WordBook plugin.  It’s an easy and non-intrusive way to let your Facebook friends know when you’ve added a new blog post.

I’m a little bit intrigued with the developing possibilities that involve connections between WordPress blogging and social-networking applications like Facebook.

This shortstat plugin is coming in handy.