Migrated to Wordpress 2.1 Ella
As you can see, this blog has a new look. I have finally ported all my blog posts from Blogger to Wordpress.
For my new readers, here’s how the old layout look like.
In fact, I prefer the previous layout. However, it was just too challenging to build a theme/template from scratch. I tried and spent more than a month to learn how to build customized Wordpress template. So far, I have not succeeded and I have to resort to other’s template, such as this cavemonkey.com’s Clean and Mean theme.
I’ve made a couple of small changes, such as the header graphics and the sidebar items. Also, I installed several plugins…
Wordpress Plugin - Ultimate Tag Warrior
One reason why I selected this “Clean and Mean” theme was the built-in support for several popular plugins e.g. Brian’s Latest Comments, Ultimate Tag Warrior and etc.
It was easy to install the plugins - just upload the files to the Wordpress plugins directory and then activate.
But, configuring the Ultimate Tag Warrior is quite complicate process. Here’s a how-to guide which I found quite useful:
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/UltimateTagWarrior
And if you selected to use “url rewriting for local tag urls” then you will have to add the following to your .htaccess.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteRule ^tag/?(.*)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?tag=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^tag/?(.*)/page/?(.*)/$ /index.php?tag=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^tag/?(.*)/$ /index.php?tag=$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^tag/?(.*)/page/?(.*)$ /index.php?tag=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^tag/?(.*)$ /index.php?tag=$1 [QSA,L] </IfModule>
You’ll not see Ultimate Tag Warrior on the homepage, instead the tag cloud is displayed near the top right corner of the sidebar on the single post pages.
Tags: tagging, ultimate-tag-warrior, Wordpress