Now running on WP 2.1.3, and several other upgraded plugins. However, I’m noticing some strange things. Not sure if they were working before though, so who knows. Here’s the laundry list:

• Search does not work. You can put something in and hit search, but it never finds anything. This is caused by a bad query in Ultimate Tag Warrior trying to hook into the search. I’ve disabled UTW for now and will fix the query soon.
• Recent Posts widget disappears on the search page. Spent a little while researching it and I can’t pinpoint the issue yet. This is also caused by UTW, though I’m not sure why. Disabling it fixes the issue.
• Meta section is missing a bunch of features it had before. Looking at the actual code for that section shows that the missing links are still there, so they’re not rendering for some reason (or a different piece of code is being called). Fixed by simply removing that category. The RSS links were the most important and Sidebar Widgets now has a separate widget for that, so problem solved I guess.
• Code highlighting plugin doesn’t render properly on archive views of posts. This doesn’t surprise me really and isn’t an issue per se, but it would be nice if this rendering did work.

I re-uploaded all the files, so I’m fairly certain that’s not the issue. Could be the theme (which I also upgraded). I’d really like to make my own theme but I just don’t seem to have the time right now. Regardless these obviously aren’t really serious issues. I’ll work through them as I can.

Edit: I’ve been thinking through this a bit more and it raises a question that I’ve actually wondered a bit. What’s really the best way to navigate through a blog? Search is obviously helpful, but proper categorization and tagging (which I’m not doing yet but want to) seems more valuable to me. I don’t get those long lists of monthly archives, they just grow and don’t seem to provide a lot of value. The calendar control is a decent compromise, though it’s a bit time consuming to navigate. An AJAX-ified version of the calendar control would be a lot nicer.

If you have any thoughts on the subject, leave a comment. I might just get rid of search and start tagging and get some tag clouds and what not.

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