Followers of my twitter status may have noticed that I (finally) upgraded my Wordpress install earlier tonight, why? Well apart from the fact that I probably should have done it a while ago, it is an important step in my redesign process. Ok, maybe not super important but its best if my ‘live’ blog matches my ‘development’ blog.
You will probably also notice a bunch of things seem to have disappeared, don’t worry most of them will be returning soon. Tags are gone, as is the big cloud of all tags that was in the sidebar, the reason for this is I’ve switched from Ultimate Tag Warrior to Simple Tagging and as yet Redoable doesn’t have support for Simple Tagging built in. I’m really liking the features in Simple Tagging, and I’ll probably knock together a post soon to talk abit about why I changed.
Also gone are the category cloud, latest comments, live archives, noteworthy, related posts, recent links. Yes I know that seems like a lot of important things that have just been shuffled to the side, but all will be good in a couple of days (fingers crossed).
Why am I doing all this, well… I’ve been working on my redesign for about four months (time got away…) and I think its ready for me to move from development to what Ben Gray calls “live redesign”. In other words my redesign is not complete, its very close, and the best way to work out what I haven’t done is to shove it out and see what does and doesn’t work. Sounds stupid doesn’t it…
So there you have it I’ve cleared out some plugins (some which I didn’t even know I was using) and made some changes behind the scenes in preparation for a planned launch (or at least the beginning of one) tomorrow. Stay tuned, the fun begins in a few hours. (For the impatient few you can sneak a peak at some bits of my redesign on flickr.)
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I’ve taken a look at Simple Tagging and it does seem to improve upon UTW. However, before I go ahead and try to move to that system, how does it compare to the built-in system in the new WP beta?
Just when I was thinking about showcasing you my subversion on Redoable
Excellent work anyway, much inspiring as well.
look forward to seeing your reasoning behind changing from UTW to Simple Tagging. I’ve only recently begun tagging my entries as i wish to build a more “interesting” archive system.
i like the new background images in the comment forms, i’ll probably remix (read: steal) that idea some time down the line.
Even naughtier of me that I have changed the homepage almost completely since I posted that blurred screenshot. ;)
And thanks for pointing out my mis-spelling of Ben’s name.
I love the screen shots on flickr, very naughty of you to put a blurred image for the homepage ;P by the way you spelt Ben Gray’s name wrong.