One of the WordPress development team, Ryan Born, noted in his post WordPress 2.2 Release Candidate 1 will not include a tagging feature, the next version could include a comprehensive taxonomy framework which could open up the field for interesting plugins.

The year has been an interesting one for WordPress bloggers with the release of about 5 major and incremental upgrades since the start of the year.

It’s interesting to see WordPress grow from more a GNU General Public License hobbist project, to a comprehensive solution that corporates are increasingly embracing.

The fact that new WordPress versions currently do or will eventually include native functions like:

• Email functions like (phpMailer)
• Tagging (which helps out the information sorting and relevance process in the age of info overload)
• Widgets (to expand its functions from it’s base text/graphics-information Content Management System publishing origins)
• XML-RPC APIs for otherwise static “Pages” as distinguished from the dynamic “Post” counterparts
• Further ATOM feed and API support for increased content distribution syndication

These initiatives give WordPress a big step up from other more Web1.0 corporate-oriented blogging platforms.

And ultimately it’s about choice. If you choose to Continue reading →