When WordPress 2.6 came out they added some nice functionality around post/page revisions. It’s nice to be able to keep track of your edits. But unfortunately they skimped on the options, making it so that you can’t set a limit to how many revisions it saves, if you want them at all for a certain post or page, or the ability to delete old revisions that you know are just clutter.

Problem solved with the very well done Revision Control plugin! It integrates exactly like I’d want it to. You can set global options (independently for posts and pages) as well as change specific settings for individual items. On top of that it puts a nice little delete link next to your revision list, so if you need to wipe out something you know is just junk it’s super easy.

Revisions go a long way to making WP more of a solid content management platform. It still has some big gaps that keep it from being enterprise level, but it suits my needs here just fine.

I’m finding that a lot of the stuff I want to talk about on here would be pretty painful to try and write out. No, not in the emotional sense, just time wise. I want to start doing some tutorials/examples/etc. of some of the sound design I do with Native Instruments Komplete 5 and it’ll just be a million times easier if I can record my screen and upload it to Vimeo or YouTube.

So, I’ll be tracking down a good screen recorder (maybe even a video camera too to show some of the other performance based stuff I do) and getting that together. I’m on vacation now so I’ll have a little time to start organizing this. Well at least until I go relax on the beach of Lake Michigan for the long weekend.

I’m thinking of getting a plug-in or hacking up some OpenID integration for comment posting on this site. On the surface it seems to really do what I want. I am so anti the idea of having a unique registration here, or even the idea of a unique “blog-centric” identity management solution. Something like OpenID sits with me really well since it’s very generic.

I just realized that my “work” tag is currently out pacing my other tags. It’s interesting but I’ve started to use the tagging as a tool for me to gauge what I’m writing about most and it’s clear I need to change things up a bit more.

I wonder if I should go back and retroactively tag my older posts… That sounds like a job for a Sunday when I’m really bored.

The last few weeks I have been getting really tired of the default-y theme. Luckily I happened across this theme which I actually liked. Most of the pre-built, freely available themes for WordPress that I can find I’m really not a fan of. I’ve been meaning to build my own, but honestly web design just doesn’t interest me quite as much as it used to. I’m more of a tweaker now. Other things that I’d rather spend my time on, I suppose.

Regardless, I’m pretty happy with how this looks for now. I’ll probably adjust a few things here and there, but I think it’s pretty snappy. Any thoughts?

Edit: Oh, one minor issue. It doesn’t display the tags associated with a post. I’ll be able to fix that pretty quickly later though. Fixed.

I’m going to finally take the plunge and trim down my large number of categories in WordPress (many of which you can’t even see because, uh, I haven’t put any content in them) and start moving to tagging. Now that tagging is native in WP 2.3 I really don’t have much of an excuse.

It’ll be a pain to go back and tag some of my older content though. Chances are I won’t actually do all of it, just some important ones.

The trick then is deciding which categories are still important, because I think they’re still valuable. I just was trying to use the category system as a tagging system of sorts and its gotten a bit unwieldy. Time to fix that!