[wp-hackers] Clarification on Tagging Plugins

[Computer Guru]

I think it's safe to say that UTW is one of the most popular plugins for
serious bloggers (who aren't necessarily techy) ever (awesome job,
Christine!).

If there is a fully working UTW-importer, would it be totally out of the
question to add a UTW routine to the 2.3 upgrade code?

Something like: Check if UTW is installed. If yes, disable it and start the
UTW importer at the end of the 2.3 upgrade?

I think - so long as the UTW importer is part of the core - that shouldn't
be a problem.

Just my two cents.

-CG

On 9/21/07, Aaron Brazell <emmensetech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed. I rarely try to push b5media influence on this list, but with 300
> blogs, at least 2/3 use UTW. If we can't take into account the large number
> of blogs using UTW with this upgrade, then we are likely not going to be
> able to upgrade anytime soon. The process is tedious and difficult if we are
> going to force manual intervention.
>
> In addition, can you imagine the net effect on support for "broken" blogs
> with people who do not understand their role in the smooth migration to a
> new version - where upgrade instructions at their most vicious are to delete
> everything except wp-config.php and wp-content?
> (via Blackberry)
> Aaron Brazell
> Director of Technology, b5media
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au>
>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:40:23
> To:wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Clarification on Tagging Plugins
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:02:52 +1000, Computer Guru <
> computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
>
> > Just FYI: UTW and WP 2.3 share some function names, so you should advise
> > people to remove UTW before upgrading, or you'll get a bunch of fatal
> > errors.......
>
> If thats the case, Can the upgrade script be modified to automatically
> disable it?
> Thats what was done with the Sidebar widgets plugin:
>
> http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php?rev=5965#L1225
>
> >
> > On 9/20/07, Christine Davis <christine at neato.co.nz> wrote:
> >>
> >> UTW as-is, is being disbanded in wordpress 2.3;  but its interesting
> >> functionality* is being split off into smaller, more managable plugins.
> >>
> >> *suggestions [is on wordpress.org], admin [is with my beta testers] and
> >> rendering [is causing me to pull my hair out].  There might be others
> (:
> >> I'm looking at you, tag entry.
> >>
> >> On 9/21/07, Aaron Brazell <abrazell at b5media.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > There is a question I'm getting a lot as I've been doing some
> >> > promotion of the next release of WordPress. The topic of built in
> >> > tags and whether UTW and the other tagging plugins will still work
> >> > with WP 2.3. The recommended approach, at least from my perspective,
> >> > is to disable tag plugins and use the WP tags but there are
> >> > legitimate reasons why some users might want to use one of the
> >> > existing tag plugins. Can anyone clarify for me what can be expected
> >> > to happen with these other tagging plugins. Will they still work,
> >> > should a blogger choose, along side WP tags since they use different
> >> > tables?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Aaron Brazell
> >> > Director of Technology, b5media
> >> > "A Global New Media Company"
> >> >
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