ultimate geek girl

One of the most touted features of the new version of WordPress is the built in tags support. If you use Ultimate Tag Warrior, Bunny’s Technorati Tags or another tagging plugin, it is easy as 1-2-3 to switch your tags to the built in tags support of WordPress 2.3.

1. Login to the WordPress admin interface and go to Manage > Import
2. Look for the option that relates to your tagging plugin. Click on it and follow the directions on the screen.
3. Uninstall the tagging plugin from your server, as you don’t need it anymore!

Of course, no installation or software upgrade is without problems.

WordPress 2.3 downloaded quickly and I was able to install onto my server in less than 10 minutes - but, it seems that some of my favorite plugins, namely Google Sitemaps Generator and Ajax Comments are incompatible with 2.3 currently. Popularity Contest is also generating some SQL errors, so I have deactivated it, also.

If you have upgraded to 2.3 and see weird stuff going on, check out the Plugins/Plugin Compatibility page.

If you want some ideas on some cool WordPress plugins to install, check out my Site Design page.

Technorati may have done some housekeeping and has a new look, but you can still generate a graph (image) with incoming links to your blog.

For bloggers, this can be helpful to pinpoint which posts created the most buzz, and can even be a great marketing tool for your site! It is very simple:

Go to http://www.technorati.com/chartimg?q=BlogURL&days=3600&width=460&height=200&type=url (Be sure to change the BlogURL value to the URL of your blog!) and press ENTER.

The image will be generated, and you can save it as is, or modify using your favorite photo editing program. (I recommend IrfanView.)