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• Windows Live Writer and Tagging Support for Wordpress

  I’ve recently upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress which now includes support for tagging posts as part of the core product. It was a little painful to go and tag up the entire backlog of previous posts, but it’s all done now, and it’s very cool to be able to get a feel for what I generally write about via the cloud.

  I’ve become accustomed to publishing content using Windows Live Writer and had totally missed how to tag posts, so that the tagging info comes through to Wordpress. In Live Writer there is an advanced properties bar that can be expanded at the bottom of the content area, and this includes a section for keywords. Anything entered here (comma-seperated) will come through to Wordpress as tags against the post.

  I’m happy again.

  Posted:

  December 11, 2007 @ 19:37

  Categories:

  Personal

  Tags:

  blogging, live writer, tags, wordpress

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• Shiny New Site

  Well, shiny refined site. There are a number of things that have been bugging me about the embeddedstream site for a while, but I haven’t really had an opportunity to address them. Well, now I have.

  Some of the issues I had were…

  • I didn’t feel like the main content pages were particularly legible or easy to read
  • There was a lot of guff and noise around that wasn’t necessary
  • The homepage wasn’t very useful
  • There are lots of posts (about 160) that are not very discoverable

  Based on these gripes, I’ve reworked the site. The changes include…

  • Homepage now consists of recent posts with full content
  • Style changes to make text more readable
  • Simplified the design and removed any unnecessary noise (both in content and design)
  • Added tagging support, and tagged all posts to make content discoverable

  The main thing really is tagging, which now part of the core Wordpress product (from version 2.3 I think). I was always a little skeptical based on fads and fashion, but if you have a large amount of content it’s a really powerful way to find things you’re looking for.

  Have a look around and let me know how well the new shoes fit. Also if anyone knows anything about tagging support within Windows Live Writer, or the MetaWeblog API then let me know. At the moment I’m writing content in Live Writer, then updating tags in Wordpress.

  Posted:

  December 10, 2007 @ 9:12

  Categories:

  Development

  Tags:

  my sites, redesign, wordpress

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