Ch-ch-changes
Today I made my sidebar widget aware, made some other changes to my theme, and replaced my categories with tags. It’s all looking pretty good, and the tag cloud is quite an interesting representation of what I’ve been writing about (although it’s possibly ruined my feminist credentials).
The only problem is that I forgot to turn off pingbacks while I was going through my archives to add new tags to every post, so lots of blogs will have been pinged by very old posts of mine when I saved them. (Also Wordpress seems to have eaten a lot of COiNS metadata – so much for the editor that doesn’t mess with your code!)
Comment by Nick — 5:42 pm, 13 August 2008 [permanent link to this comment]
Aha – that’s what it was. I got very confused by the sudden burst of comment activity in Wordpress! Tag cloud’s looking good, though – it draws you in much more than the category list (well, me anyway).
Comment by Gavin Robinson — 9:06 am, 14 August 2008 [permanent link to this comment]
I got confused too when I saw so many recent comments from myself. Anyone who gets these pings can delete them as they shouldn’t really be there.
I’d got used to using categories for so long that I thought it would be hard to change, but I’ve always found them a bit too general and inflexible. It turned out to be quite easy to make the switch, especially now we have widgets so I didn’t have to code the tag cloud into my theme.