It’s taken me a while to get this site upgraded to the WordPress 2.3.1, but there are a few other sites that I work with that have been running this latest version. I’ve had some low level interaction with this latest release, and there are a lot of positive things that I’ve experienced. Still, there is one thing that bothers me.
Tags.
Now we exist in a world of tags and categories, and they both do nearly the same thing, at least when they work correctly. Still, it makes my wonder about the whole scheme, more to the effect of what it is that I should or shouldn’t be doing with the way I interact with my WordPress blog.
I’ve read enough to know that the tagging feature was scrapped from the 2.2 release because it was getting rushed, so developers opted to wait until 2.3. Well, it’s here. I’m not so sure that it’s ready to be launched into the grand scheme of things because I really am not sure what I should be doing with tags, even after reading a few things by those close to the development process.
Preferably, I would have liked to see one replaced by the other, if tags are indeed going to replace categories like I read into, in one big sweep. For the most part, I’m going to keep ignoring tags for the time being, but that might screw me over in the future.
When it comes down to it, you shouldn’t have to try so hard to understand it. I switched to WordPress from Blogger because I looked at it, and it made sense. Keep it simple, stupid. That’s how I roll, and now I’m the one left scratching my head over what I should be preparing myself for down the line.
Just moved to WordPress. When Blogger updated its own interface to become a little more plugin-friendly, I procrastinated on a long-overdue move. But having been on WordPress for just three weeks or so, I’m upset at myself for having taken so long.