One of the big changes in WordPress 2.3 is inherent support for tagging. We have used the excellent Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) plugin till today, but tagging seems to have become popular enough for WordPress to support it. Correspondingly, the themes will now have to change to make the appropriate WordPress function call instead of the UTW call to display tags and tag clouds. [Continue]
Wordpress allows you to categorize your blog posts. There are also some plugins that let you work with tags. Seemingly both of them can be used for the same thing - qualify your posts. [Continue]
Chiara Fox explains what tagging is all about. She highlights differences between tagging and traditional categorization. Tag brings metadata to the masses. [Continue]
The post about Global Tags encourages Wordpress users to use categories as tags. Tags are extremely important for making content available and also to connect the blogging community. Implementing tags as categories is great, but using categories only for tags can kill many other possibilities. [Continue]
Tagging is an inherent part of blogging. You not only write but also tell people its associations. This is pretty convenient for the readers, but not very convenient for me as a blogger. [Continue]