Categories (not equal to) Tags…

I, like many other technophiles, am an upgrade whore. I love to upgrade the second that a new update is available, even if it has the potential to FUBAR everything that works just fine.

Quite often, I know in advance that an update will cause me to spend multiple hours to tweak and ensure that it works properly, when it was excellent before upgrading. Case in point, WordPress 2.3.

This update adds quite a few snazzy features to the backend of WordPress, and is, all-in-all, an excellent update. That being said, it adds Tags and folksonomies, which most people were hacking categories to resemble. This means, to make my blog work properly and “feel” right, I need to:

• Add code to my theme to make it tag aware. I have done this using a WordPress-cited reference that goes into the basics. With a highly modified theme, making a theme tag aware is far more complicated than the author of the webpage suggests (honestly, the methodology described on the page is a bit vague until you read the second page that the author created in response to people asking, “WTF!?!”
• Go back through my page and add tags to old posts and reduce the number of categories employed.
• Remember to add tags to the bottom of a post and not add a shitload of categories.
• Hell… if I am going to streamline categories, I should look at the categories I have and focus them into the central themes of the page, then get rid of the category cloud widget, because that is a hack to use categories like tags…
• Add a tag cloud widget or write some code to display the new tags, and make it work as I would like…
• Perhaps I should make about 10 categories and not allow a post to utilize more than two at a time. Now I have to make new category rules Goddamit!

In addition to changing the manner in which my WordPress install works, I will have to tweak tagging on things linked to the page and see how changing all of my categories breaks everything.

By the time that I have all of the issues fixed that this upgrade has caused, it will be time for me to upgrade again and hose everything that I have worked for… And I will love it.

P.S. You would think that uploading a simple fucking picture to Photobucket would be easy, but the website sucks ass… slow and user-inaccessible.

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