{"id":351,"date":"2007-05-09T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T06:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/wordpress-blogging-pipeline-and-projections\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T06:24:47","slug":"wordpress-blogging-pipeline-and-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/wordpress-blogging-pipeline-and-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Blogging Pipeline and Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the WordPress development team, Ryan Born, noted in his post <a href=\"http:\/\/boren.nu\/archives\/2007\/05\/08\/wordpress-22-release-candidate-1\/\" title=\"ryan boren wordpress\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.2 Release Candidate 1<\/a> will not include a tagging feature, the next version could include a comprehensive taxonomy framework which could open up the field for interesting plugins.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see WordPress grow from more a GNU General Public License hobbist project, to a comprehensive solution that corporates are increasingly embracing.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that new WordPress versions currently do or will eventually include native functions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email functions like (<a href=\"http:\/\/phpmailer.sourceforge.net\/\" title=\"phpmailer\" target=\"_blank\">phpMailer<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Tagging (which helps out the information sorting and relevance process in the age of info overload)<\/li>\n<li>Widgets (to expand its functions from it&#8217;s base text\/graphics-information Content Management System publishing origins)<\/li>\n<li>XML-RPC APIs for otherwise static &#8220;Pages&#8221; as distinguished from the dynamic &#8220;Post&#8221; counterparts<\/li>\n<li>Further ATOM feed and API support for increased content distribution syndication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These initiatives give WordPress a big step up from other more Web1.0 corporate-oriented blogging platforms.<\/p>\n<p>And ultimately it&#8217;s about choice. If you choose to<!--more--> do a cotton candy blog featuring Youtube videos you can do it just as easily as disseminating information on service uptimes and kernel updates via a corporate blog.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your favorite features like tags aren&#8217;t natively supported in WordPress now, you can easily add the functions by installing the appropriate plugin. The techset is figuring out the next big thing too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping my fingers crossed to see native support for audio and video content. We might see it sooner than we think.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_2.2\" title=\"wordpress 2.2\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.2 features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trac.wordpress.org\/milestone\/2.2\" title=\"wordpress 2.2 milestones\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.2 milestones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dougal.gunters.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/wordpress-22-delayed\" title=\"dougal wordpress 2.2\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Dev team&#8217;s Dougal WordPress 2.2 post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lorelle.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/18\/wordpress-22-delayed\/\" title=\"lorelle wordpress 2.2\" target=\"_blank\">Lorelle on WordPress: WordPress 2.2 Delay<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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