A Call To Plugin Authors

February 21st, 2007

I’m going to restructure Ultimate Tag Warrior a bit. I’m not sure about the finer details of it yet.

However. If you’ve written a plugin or other such thing which interacts with or depends on Ultimate Tag Warrior; you should let me know how you use it, so that I don’t break your plugins (:

If you use the template tags (UTW_Show…), I’ll make sure that is going to keep working in much the same way (so if you have a UTW theme, it will probably be A-OK); but if you use functions in the Ultimate Tag Warrior classes, it’s much more important that you tell me what you’re using.

Awesome.

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25 Responses to “A Call To Plugin Authors”
  1. Comment by TDH
    Wednesday 21 February, 2007 @ 9:40 pm

    Exciting! I’m a long term user of the plugin (no custom stuff, just the tags) so I can’t wait to see what you’re going to do to it. :)

  2. Comment by Mike Wills
    Friday 23 February, 2007 @ 9:42 am

    There is a bug that breaks the tag selection in http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/ when http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin is installed. I am also reporting this to the other developer. I am not sure who’s problem it is, but it is annoying.

  3. Comment by Bloggero
    Wednesday 28 February, 2007 @ 12:26 am

    I’m waiting with a tremor the update for wp 2.1.1. I’m a noob in php so I don’t use any of UTW functions, but I still love you for this plugin. By the way… a subscribe to comment on this site will be great… or at least a email subscribe to all posts

  4. Comment by sfong
    Thursday 1 March, 2007 @ 3:36 am

    I’m responding to this and your earlier post about splitting UTW up into pieces. You can please everyone. I think it would be ideal to have both options, i.e. retaining the 3.14159265 (oops, this one doesn’t work for me, just changed back to 3.1415926) and a core UTW with various little and simple plugins to be activated when needed. I could do a little plugin but I wouldn’t dare looking beyond first 10 lines of your codes. If you have other smaller one then beginners like me could manage those, with a bit of luck you could even write tutorial such that others could help writing add-on plugins to your core UTW, isn’t that nice?

  5. Comment by SHRIKEE
    Friday 2 March, 2007 @ 2:41 am

    Maybe you can include the plugins people made on your UTW as optional features… might be interresting.

  6. Comment by lino
    Friday 2 March, 2007 @ 7:10 am

    I have written a small plugin that takes the tags from a del.icio.us daily post (which is coming in via xmlrpc) and injects them into UTW so that the post is tagged with all the tags from del.icio.us.
    The plugin page with a link to the source can be found at http://blog.ranta.info/ultimate_daily_posts/ – if you can keep UTW compatible I will be happy, if not I will find another way to do what I want. I don’t think that more than 5 people use my plugin anyhow…

  7. Comment by Dave Forde
    Friday 2 March, 2007 @ 11:27 pm

    I’m not a developer, but tend to push the limites of tools. I think integration into blog publishing tools such as Qumana would be a great thing for UTW and vice versa.

  8. Comment by Carlton Bale
    Friday 9 March, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

    Do you have time for this? Should it be made into an open-source project so multiple developers can develop? For example, there is still the ongoing problem with search breaking with the latest release. . .

  9. Comment by Ponn Sabra
    Tuesday 13 March, 2007 @ 2:41 am

    A colleague just introduced me to UTW yesterday and willing and able to install it for the relaunch of my website/blog this Thursday, March 15th. Should I wait? I think there’s more benefit for me to get it now and upgrades later. Your thoughts?

    http://www.neato.co.nz/archives/2007/02/13/utw-maybe-its-time-for-a-revolutionary-change/

  10. Comment by Ponn Sabra
    Tuesday 13 March, 2007 @ 2:42 am

    Oops, wrong thread: http://empowerwomennow.blogspot.com/2007/03/search-engine-optimizationseo-for_3539.html

  11. Comment by Ninindi
    Saturday 24 March, 2007 @ 6:36 pm

    I’ve got a problem with the plugin,
    the configuration menu does not
    show places to enter the tags or synonyms.

    Everything else seems to be there -
    what do I need to do?

  12. Comment by Misty
    Saturday 31 March, 2007 @ 3:43 am

    I hate to post this the wrong place, but I’m hoping you will look at this. I can’t log into the forum. I know that I have the correct username and password, because I did the Reset Password thing. Now when I put them in, I get taken back to the Forum main page, and the words still say “Sign In” at the top, and I do not have the opportunity to create a new thread.

    I did not see any other way to contact you on your site. Please delete this or move it to the right place after you see it…

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  14. Comment by Soren Dayton
    Thursday 5 April, 2007 @ 1:06 am

    I have added a little widget to it…

    I am waiting on a stable UTW to upgrade to the new wordpress branch.

  15. Comment by Misty
    Thursday 5 April, 2007 @ 8:58 am

    Just so that you know before you put a lot of work into this, tags are alerady in WP trunk. I’m not sure how the implementation will compare to UTW, but you might want to check it out before you spend a lot of time, because a lot of people might move to the in-built tagging system. I’m not sure, but just wanted to give a heads-up.

  16. Comment by Christine Davis
    Thursday 5 April, 2007 @ 8:59 am

    Sweeeet!

    I guess I should make a thinger for moving UTW tags into WP tags (:

  17. Comment by Thomas Clausen
    Friday 6 April, 2007 @ 10:23 am

    I love UTW, but unfortunately I also like the BBPress forum, and apparently the two collide. It is the is_tag function I’ve heard some say. It would be great if there was a way to work around, so I and many others could use both UTW and BBPress.

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  19. Comment by moeffju
    Tuesday 10 April, 2007 @ 10:23 pm

    WordPress 2.2-SVN comes with an UTW tags importer, btw. Go to Manage > Import after upgrading (and deactivating UTW), and add the_tags() to your template to output the tags.

  20. Comment by moeffju
    Tuesday 10 April, 2007 @ 10:24 pm

    WordPress 2.2-SVN already has an importer for UTW tags. After upgrading your blog and disabling the UTW plugin, go to Manage -> Import -> Ultimate Tag Warrior.

    Then use the_tags() to show the tags in your template.

  21. Comment by Christine Davis
    Wednesday 11 April, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

    Oh (:

    I’d written an exporter for tags in the version I haven’t released just yet (;

  22. Comment by Joaquín Windmüller
    Thursday 12 April, 2007 @ 8:39 am

    Hi Christine, today I wrote a blog post about some problems I encountered with your plugin. Would you be kind to read the post about it?

    Cheers

  23. Comment by Rian
    Monday 30 April, 2007 @ 3:48 am

    Great plugin, thanks. Any issues with WP 2.1.3 reported? I just upgraded. Thanks.

  24. Comment by Chris
    Saturday 9 June, 2007 @ 6:22 am

    Does UTW support Windows Live Writer Beta 2? (it just came out on June 6th). Also how does UTW work with wordpress 2.2?

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